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ALTERNATIVE AMERICA: A Directory of 5000 Alternative Lifestyle Groups and Organizations.
Cambridge, Mass.: Richard Gardner, 1976. First edition. 4to. Wrps., unpaginated (approx. 192pp.).
A vast, cross-referenced data resource, painstakingly compiled on a computer by Richard Gardner, providing listings of thousands of alternative groups and co-operatives across America, arranged by geographical location, name and description, and intended as "a tool for people who are serious about communicating".
Foreword by Karl Hess, former presidential speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, and an early supporter of the back-to-the-land movement whose libertarianism, free market anarchism and anti-1% activism is now thought of as an ideological antecedent to both the Tea Party and Occupy movements.
Newsprint paper slightly age-toned, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy.
