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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)

Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew

Paperback

Regional: New EnglandSocial MovementsUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1541788494
ISBN13: 9781541788497
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Sep 14 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling. ―The New Republic

A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness.

The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity.

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.

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