Book Review, Creating a Perfect World,Religious and Secular Utopias in nineteenth-century Ohio

Book Review Creating a Perfect World
The introduction to this book focuses on how individuals have responded to economic, social, and political spheres changing. During the Great Depression some Americans participated in New Deal communities focusing on cooperative forms of living. In the 1960's due to the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and political division, some people created less conventional communes that they viewed superior. America's past reveals times when people attempted to create a perfect world. Due to the westward expansion of the early 19th century Americans d…