It is interesting. Thought-provoking, obviously. It's a bit of an odd book to read, since it is composed mainly of primary source material (letters and diaries and stuff) that was compiled by the founder's nephew. So parts of it are totally fascinating, and other parts of it are long anecdotes about how they organized a work party to clear a new field... If you do seek it out, be sure to read the introduction because it seems to be the only part of the book that provides any background info or any sense of context.
Anyhow, if you want to look for it, you might want to know the whole title and the author and stuff like that. It's called Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community, and it's listed as "Compiled by George Wallingford Noyes and edited by Lawrence Foster."
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Date: 2004-09-02 08:05 pm (UTC)Anyhow, if you want to look for it, you might want to know the whole title and the author and stuff like that. It's called Free Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community, and it's listed as "Compiled by George Wallingford Noyes and edited by Lawrence Foster."