PETER LAMBORN WILSON—The American Revolution as a Gigantic Real Estate Scam

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition TRADE PAPERBACK (in VG+ / UNREAD condition) of: • “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS A GIGANTIC REAL ESTATE SCAM & Other Essays in Lost/Found History” (AUTONOMEDIA, 2019) (TRADE PAPERBACK, First Edition, First Printing) • PETER LAMBORN WILSON (1945-2022) • “Six previously uncollected essays in alternative history—maybe even ‘lost/found’ history — from the author of SACRED DRIFT, PIRATE UTOPIAS, HERESIES, RIVERPEOPLE, ESCAPE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY, and many more. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS A GIGANTIC REAL ESTATE SCAM establishes the acutely ‘revisionist’ mood; — another essay touching on early American history, ‘TOLAND, BLAKE AND THE AMERICAN DRUIDS,’ follows. Then, a pair of essays on the scandal of eugenics in America—'JUKES IN UTOPIA,’ about a family oppressed by Eugenicists in upstate New York, and ‘THE MONKEY TRIAL: A REVISIONIST INTERPRETATION.’ Finally, two essays on anarchist themes: ‘THE COFFEEHOUSE REPUBLIC,’ on GUSTAV LANDAUER and the Munich Soviet of 1919, and ‘BRAND: AN ITALIAN ANARCHIST AND HIS DREAM’; on ENRICO ARRIGONI, ;the last of the Italian left-wing Stirnerite individualists’ and his amazing insurrectionism and illegalism.” —THE PUBLISHER • “The ‘LOST-FOUND HISTORY’ reference in the subtitle is an indicator that the reader is in for more of WILSON’s accessible, deeply erudite analysis. Each essay conveys a fantastic sense of period; the author’s deep dive approach to local and buried sources guarantees a fascinating excursion each time you open the book. The title piece puts the lie to myths about the Founding Fathers as selfless, idealistic demigods...uncovering the avaricious roots of the colonial/early independence land grab, with its attendant genocide against native populations, is a great service to truth. I guess the winners don’t *always* write the history. Highly recommended.”—CHRIS BRANDLON, AMAZON REVIEW • “Some people get uncomfortable, even angry, when their images of history are challenged or upended. Others suspect that since one can never get at the absolute truth of the past, it is good to weigh alternative histories. This book is for the latter type. It is also for those who enjoy wry, erudite treatments of things they’ve never given a thought to, like the American Druids or the Jukes, or who think the Scopes Monkey Trial was a triumph over obscurantism rather than a validation of eugenics. Wilson can be relied on for a sideways take on any controversial subject, and for unearthing picturesque characters like the two anarchists, FRANK BRAND and GUSTAV LANDAUER, who fill out this collection.”—A READER, AMAZON REVIEW • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “A counterculture intellectual, anarchist, poet, musicologist and utopian who coined the term “temporary autonomous zone,” which became a cri de coeur for the organizers behind both Burning Man and Occupy Wall Street — as well as for ravers, cyberpunks and other late-20th-century antiestablishmentarians…. MR. WILSON’s background, unsurprisingly, was eclectic. He was a classics major at Columbia University but dropped out. He helped start a psychedelic church, and he pondered, briefly, a career as an antiwar activist (an attempt to bomb a draft headquarters in red paint fizzled) before hitting the hippie hashish trail, as many of his peers did, traveling through the Middle East and South Asia…. By all accounts, MR. WILSON was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions.” —NEW YORK TIMES (THE AUTHOR’S OBITUARY)• “He was a fascinating character. He knew a lot about everything. The thing we had in common was an interest in dropout culture, in all the ways of not participating in the charade of modern life. And he was encyclopedic in his knowledge of all that material. He was an eccentric, but also I think what he was doing was scattering bread crumbs for others to pick up.” —LUCY SANTE, “LOW LIFE: LURES AND SNARES OF OLD NEW YORK,” ETC.• • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AS A GIGANTIC REAL ESTATE SCAM & Other Essays in Lost/Found History” AUTHOR: PETER LAMBORN WILSON FRONT COVER ART: GEOFFREY HARDING (“Not on My Land”) TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: AUTONOMEDIA (Brooklyn, NY), 2019 EDITION: PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: (This book was not issued in hardcover.) On the Copyright Page, no later printings listed. NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 177 ISBN: 978-1-57027-357-5 CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Wraps are bright & clean. Corners are lightly bumped. Edges are fine. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped top. Text-block edges are lightly scratched. 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