The New Decentralists - The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Politics of Localism in Appalachia, 1968-2000

How some "back-to-the-landers" fled alienating urban, bureaucratic places for rural Appalachia in pursuit of self-reliance, liberation, and community, only to later find themselves vulnerable to a rising tide of national conservatism that minted new political elites on the state and local level at odds with their progressive social ideas and environmental values.