The Communistic Societies of the United States: Economic Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century

Okay. So I read this ALL the way through. It is quite interesting from a comparative religion / utopianist society point of view. I thought it was pretty good, especially where it describes such groups as the Shakers and various German-based communistic societies. Plus, it has some excellent illustrations of the various societies' villages, living quarters, etc. It definitely deserves more than 2 stars, so i will give it :

Great book and the observations about communism are spot on. The reason ibleave off a star is that towards the end, the examples become less descriptive and thorough in their analysis.

I'm not going to finish reading this...looked at the pictures & started the forward. The first sentence says, "Contemporary readers often confuse Charles Nordhoff's name with that of his grandson, Charles Bernard nordhoff, the author of the "Mutiny on the Bounty," and with his son Walter Nordhoff...."
Since I wanted to read other books by the author of the "Mutiny on the Bounty", I'm not going to finish this!

Facs. rpt. of edition published New York : Harper, 1875.