Man and Mission

In Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, historian Paul Gaston relates his grandfather's 1864 founding of the utopian community of Fairhope, Alabama. The twenty-eight "e;Fairhopers"e; hoped to realize an "e;equality of opportunity, the full reward of individual efforts, and the benefits of co-operation in matters of general concern,"e; at a time when the economic system of the United States was ravaged by monopoly capitalism. Using family and public records, Man and Mission gives an intimate view of a vibrant moment in the history of Gilded Age America.