If It Sounds Like a Quack...
- 336 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies.



A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies.
"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, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions barely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The bears, on the other hand, were increasingly visible. Grafton's freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city, in an effort to get off the grid. And with a large and growing local bear population, conflict became inevitable. [This book] is both a screwball comedy and the story of a radically American commitment to freedom. Full of colorful characters, puns and jokes, and one large social experiment, it is a quintessentially American story, a bearing of our national soul"--
Reporterska książka o najśmielszym eksperymencie społecznym w nowoczesnej historii Ameryki. Pewnego dnia grupa libertarian postanawia w miasteczku otoczonym lasami urzeczywistnić utopię ludzi kochających wolność. Za nic mając prawa i przepisy, na pierwszym miejscu stawiając prywatną własność i wolność, doprowadzają do tego, że ich miastem interesują się niedźwiedzie. „Niedźwiedzia przysługa” to jednocześnie zabawna i przerażająca opowieść o wizji miejsca bez podatków czy straży pożarnej, w której hasło „żyj wolnym, lub giń” zostaje zrewidowane przez... niedźwiedzie.