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Paradise lost: a populist's nostalgic ode to an America gone by.(Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists)(Book review)

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From: Reason
Date: 20070101
Author:McClaughry, John

Look Homeward, America, by Bill Kauffman, Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 185 pages, $25

AT THE TURN of the 20th century, one of the most popular writers in America dwelled in a small village in upstate New York. After two decades of wandering about Europe and America, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) had settled in East Aurora, 18 miles southeast of Buffalo. Along the way he had built and sold a soap company, making a tidy profit he used to finance his literary ventures.

Hubbard wanted to be a well-known writer. The editors at the leading publishing houses of the day did not ...

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