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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781541788510

Price: £22.99

ON SALE: 15th October 2020

Genre: Society & Social Sciences / Politics & Government

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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.

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear 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.

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