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Scott Nearing

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Kittanning, Pennsylvania, The United States

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Scott Nearing (1883-1983) was an American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer. Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Nearing is still viewed as a radical 20 years after his death. In 1954 he co-authored Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World with his wife Helen. The book, in which war, famine and poverty were discussed, described a nineteen-year "back to the land experiment" and also advocated a modern day "homesteading." Nearing's anti-war activities cost him two teaching jobs, and he was even charged under the Espionage Act for opposing the First World War. ...more

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	The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living by Scott Nearing, Helen Nearing 4.12 avg rating — 2,012 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (Good Life Series) 4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Empire 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1922 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Debs Decision 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1919 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Education: Progressive Education One Hundred Years Ago Today by Scott Nearing, Herbert Kohl (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conscience of a Radical really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1965 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civilization and Beyond Learning from History really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man's Search for the Good Life 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times by Scott Nearing, Helen K. Nearing (Foreword), Steve Sherman (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Education: A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day [1915] 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
― Scott Nearing, The Debs Decision

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“Anything that squarely challenges The American Way or western civilization is suspect. After the War of 1914-1918, censorship, secret police and ‘voluntary discipline in the public interest’ took over. Step by step, year by year, war by war, the interests of big business were synchronized with the public interests until big business made the policy decisions which determined what was good for the people to hear, see and read – therefore good for the best interests of the United States Oligarchy and the American Empire.”
― Scott Nearing, The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography

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“War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.”
― Scott Nearing

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