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Scott Nearing

The Making of a Homesteader

by John Saltmarsh

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Illustrations vii
Preface to the Second Edition viii
Acknowledgments

xi

An Introduction: The Terrible Freedom 1
Part One - American Promise
Chapter 1 Life Among the Oligarchs 7
Chapter 2 The New Economics 27
Chapter 3 The Morality of Riches 37
Chapter 4 The Strenuous Life 50
Chapter 5 Social Adjustment 65
Part Two - Intellectual Repression
Chapter 6 Academic Asphyxiation 81
Chapter 7 The Dred Scott of the Teaching Profession 96
Chapter 8 Free Speech 111
Part Three - The Great Betrayal
Chapter 9 For Democracy and Peace 129
Chapter 10 A Good Propagandist 146
Chapter 11 The Great Madness 155
Chapter 12 Every Man His Own Radical 165
Part Four - What Can the Radical Do?
Chapter 13 The American Empire 177
Chapter 14 Can We Live Up to Our Ideals? 195
Chapter 15 I Didn't Say It Because Marx Said It 205
Chapter 16 The Farce of Political Democracy 224
Chapter 17 Twilight 236
Part Five - Living the Good Life
Chapter 18 To a Cyclone Cellar in New England 245

Notes 267
Manuscript Sources 319
Bibliography: The Works of Scott Nearing 321
Index 331