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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 2-7 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Februar 2020
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	History of the Americas / HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Municipal / city government / Northeastern & North Atlantic States / Political science & theory / Political science and theory / Regional / International studies / Regional government / Regional Studies / Regional, state and other local government / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies / United States of America, USA / US Northeast# New England / USA
ISBN:	9781541788510
EAN-Code:	9781541788510
Verlag:	Little, Brown and Company
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 244 mm / B 154 mm / D 30 mm
Gewicht:	500 gr
Seiten:	288
Bewertung:	Titel bewerten / Meinung schreiben

Inhalt:

"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, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable. [This book] is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul"--