A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear

The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

• Author(s): Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling,
• Publisher: Hachette UK
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 1541788486
  ISBN_13: 9781541788480
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / American Government / Local , History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) , Humor / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... "Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New Republic

A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.   Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness.
The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.