Town Meeting: Practicing Democracy in Rural New England

by Donald L. Robinson

At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln described government by the people as "the great task remaining before us." Many citizens of modern America, frustrated and disheartened, are tempted to despair of realizing that ideal. Yet, it is a project still alive in parts of New England.

This book traces the origins of town-meeting democracy in Ashfield, a community of just under 2,000 people in the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Donald...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558498559
• ISBN13: 9781558498556
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"