Scott Nearing lived one hundred years, from 1883 to 1983—a life spanning most of the twentieth century. In his early years, Nearing made his name as a formidable opponent of child labor and military imperialism. Having been fired from university jobs for his independence of mind, Nearing became a freelance lecturer and writer, traveling widely through Depression-era and post-war America to speak with eager audiences. Five-time Socialist candidate for president Eugene V. Debs said, "Scott Nearing! He is the greatest teacher in the United States."Concluding that it would be better to be poor in the country than in New York City, Scott and Helen Nearing moved north to Vermont in 1932 and commenced the experiment in self-reliant living that would extend their fame far and wide. They began to grow most of their own food, and devised their famous scheme for allocating the day's hours: one third for "bread work" (livelihood), one third for "head work" (intellectual endeavors), and one third for "service to the world community." Scott (who'd grown up partly on his grandfather's Pennsylvania farm) taught Helen (who was raised in suburbia, groomed for a career as a classical violinist) the practical skills they would need: working with tools, cultivating a garden and managing a woodlot, and building stone and masonry walls.For the rest of their lives, the Nearings chronicled in detail their "good life," first in Vermont and ultimately on the coast of Maine, in a group of wonderful books—many of which are now being returned to print by Chelsea Green in cooperation with the Good Life Center, an educational trust established at the Nearings' Forest Farm in Harborside, Maine, to promote their ongoing legacy.With a new foreword by activist historian Staughton Lynd, The Making of a Radical is freshly republished-Scott Nearing's own story, told as only he could tell it.

The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography

Politics & Social Sciences

Scott Nearing

Politics & Government

Harper Row Publishers

Excerpt from Financing the Wage Earner's Family: A Survey of the Facts Bearing on Income and Expenditures in the Families of American Wage-EarnersTradition holds another form which is equally dis astrous to the making of an adequate budget. Peo ple take it for granted that a dollar and a half a day is a fair wage. Why should the wage be fixed at a dollar and a half 2 Because twenty or thirty years ago a man living in a village could support his family very decently on that amount. Is a dol lar and a half sufficient to-day? An appeal to the family budget furnishes the only answer. The im migrant has worked in Italy for sixty cents a day. Will a dollar and a half not provide a princely liv ing, and allow for saving at the same time? Write it into a budget and see! Tradition fixes the wage, however, without even considering budgetry needs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Financing the Wage Earner''s Family: A Survey of the Facts Bearing on Income and Expenditures in the Families of American Wage-Earners (Classic Reprint)

History

Americas

Forgotten Books

In 1932, Helen and Scott Nearing moved from New York City to a farm in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Their purpose was to seek a simple life on the land, away from the stresses of the Depression and city life, LIVING THE GOOD LIFE, first published in 1954, presents a technical, economic, sociological and psychological report on how they fared. 
"A prophet account of the creation of a self-sufficient little Walden in rural Vermont that has been an underground bible for the city-weary." (Newsweek)

Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely in a Troubled World

Helen Nearing

BOOKS ON TAPE]

The author recounts her family's quest for the simple life which led them to New England and the maple sugar industry

The Maple Sugar Book

Science & Math

Technology

Schocken

Book by Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing

Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Schocken Books

Scott Nearing focused on the future, and his writings are startlingly fresh and applicable today. During his 100-year life (1883-1983) he wrote more than 50 books and monographs about vital social issues. For the first time, this reader offers rare material from Nearing's private library and other difficult-to-find books, pamphlets, debates, and the transcript of his trial (he was the only pacifist acquitted of government charges during World War I). This collection of maverick thought contains select excerpts from Nearing's pioneering works, including United World, Woman and Social Progress, Democracy Is Not Enough, Social Religion, War, and Black America.

A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times

Social Sciences

Scarecrow Pr

The Good Life Album of Helen & Scott Nearing

Travel

Social Science Inst

1978: 2nd Printing - by Helen and Scott Nearing - 148 pages.

Building and Using Our Sun-Heated Greenhouse: Grow Vegetables All Year-Round

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Garden Way Publishing

Untitled

General Books

New Larger Print, 14 point font  Looked at from any standpoint, this study is a collection of articles rather than a book, yet there is sufficient relation between the articles to give a measure of continuity to the thought which they convey. In no sense is the work pedagogical or theoretical. It is, on the contrary, a record of the impressions made on a traveler by a number of school systems and schools. The articles purported to cover the most progressive work which is being done in the most progressive schools. Although the selection of successful schools was made only after a careful canvass among the leading educators of the country, there are undoubtedly many instances, still at large, which are in every sense as worthy of commendation as any here recorded. This fact does not in any way vitiate the purpose of the original articles, which was to set down a statement of some educational successes in such a way that the lay reader, grasping the significance of these ventures, might see in them immediate possibilities for the schools in his locality.  Behind all of the chapters is the same idea the idea of educating children an idea which has taken firm hold of the progressive educators in every section of the community. The schoolmaster is breaking away from the traditions of his craft. He has laid aside the birch, the three "R's," the categorical imperative, and a host of other instruments invented by ancient pedagogical inquisitors, and with an open mind is going up and down the world seeking to reshape the schools in the interests of childhood. The task is Herculean, but the enthusiasm and energy which inspire his labors are sufficient to overcome even those obstacles which are apparently insurmountable.

The New Education: A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day

Literature & Fiction

Classics

TGS Publishing

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