American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History Book

Introduction Life is More important Than Art, or Eutopia, Evolution, and Social Engineering 1. How I Stopped Worrying and Loved Behavioural Engineering, or Communal Life, Evolution, and B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two 2. You’re Not in Canada Until You Can Hear the Loons Crying, or Voting, People’s Power, and Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3. You’ll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me, or Morality, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace 4. We Better Kill That Instinct to Kill Before It Kills Us, or Violence, Mind Control, and Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome 5. It Can’t Happen Here, or Politics, Emotions, and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America