I don't mean this as a plug for my book- although I think it's an excellent guide both for self-help and for therapists - but because the topic has been so largely ignored since the 1890s and is deserving of a comeback.)

(For those interested in Mesmerism, one of the best histories of this practice - and how it was used by Freud and then fell into disrepute, and is now making a comeback in the form of EMDR and other anti-trauma therapies - is my book Walking Your Blues Away. The plot device of Bellamy’s novel is that the hero is “Mesmerized” - hypnotized - and the trance is so deep that he wakes up in the year 2000, his bodily functions having been so dramatically slowed that he’s still a young man in his twenties and in fine physical health (albeit a bit hungry and weak). But once I started reading Bellamy’s book, I had to suspend Brown’s: Bellamy’s book totally captured me, even though it was written more than 100 years ago. It positively inspired Bernie Sanders’ hero Eugene Debs, for example, Nader told me.Īt the time, I was also reading Dan Brown’s book, ”The Lost Symbol,” an excellent novel in the classic, formula-adventure-fiction of this century that’s so much fun to read. Ralph Nader told me about this novel, first published in 1888, and how it was one of the major inspirations for the Progressive movement of the late 19th century. This one is particularly well worth reading! The novel also inspired several utopian communities.In this Sunday excerpt space, in addition to publishing chapters of my own books, I occasionally slip in a review of someone else’s book. Owing to its commitment to the nationalization of private property and the desire to avoid use of the term socialism, this political movement came to be known as Nationalism - not to be confused with the political concept of nationalism. In the United States alone, over 162 'Bellamy Clubs' sprang up to discuss and propagate the book's ideas. 'It is one of the few books ever published that created almost immediately on its appearance a political mass movement'. It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and appears by title in many of the major Marxist writings of the day. It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts it was first published in 1888.

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