Coming of Age in Utopia

The Odyssey of an Idea

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian and civil rights activist Paul M. Gaston reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian community founded in 1894 by his grandfather on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Fairhope grew into a unique political, economic, and educational experiment and a center of radical economic and educational ideals. As time passed, however, Fairhope’s radical nature went into decline. By the early 1950s, the author began to look outward for ways to take part in the coming struggle—the civil rights movement. Gaston’s career at the University of Virginia, where he taught from 1957–97, forms the core of Coming of Age in Utopia.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN9781588382252

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PAUL M. GASTON (1928-2019) was born and reared in Fairhope, Alabama, about which he has written two books. He is also the author of The New South Creed, winner of the Lillian Smith Award for distinguished writing about the South. He is a past president of the Southern Regional Council and has been a frequent visitor in South Africa, both before and after the fall of apartheid. He has received numerous honors for both his professional work and civil rights leadership, including the outstanding professor award from the Commonwealth of Virginia; bridge builder recognition from the city of Charlottesville; legendary civil rights activist from the NAACP; and community leader, from his alma mater, Swarthmore College.

The arc of his personal story moves from an unlikely experiment in utopian living, to an enduring marriage, through a distinguished career in the academic world—one that energized his engagement with the civil rights movement. Author and professor Paul Gaston is one of those most fortunate among us who has lived a wonderfully fulfilling life of quality and purpose. These pages inspire service, loyalty, education, dissent, and, most of all, the justice that inevitably follows.