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An excellent work on various utopian ideas of the 20th century. Winter's writing is very good and this makes for an enjoyable read. Winter focuses on "minor utopias," thus avoiding Nazism and Communism. He covers a number if different dreamers and attempts at making the world a better place--many of which are now almost forgotten. I very much enjoyed the chapter on the the role of Rene Cassin in the development of the Universal Declaration of human Rights of 1948. White writes: "What distinguishes them from others is that they then get up and (perhaps against reason or logic) do not turn cynical or passive, but manage to take a leap into the dark, and despite all, they dream dreams which reconfigure their initial commitment in new and imaginative forms." Indeed. We could use a few more of those types right now...
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