William Palmer
The Road To Hell
Devastating Eden: The Search For Utopia In America
By Brian Thompson
HarperCollins 320pp £20 order from our bookshop
IN THE LAST century – under the three large-scale schemes to improve and regulate humanity led by Messrs Mao. Stalin and Hitler – many millions of innocent men. women and children were murdered. slavery was reintroduced, and whole cultures and peoples’ were destroyed. Brim Thompson’s new book describes an earlier and less disastrous experiment in human perfectibility.
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