Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World by Nearing, Helen, and Nearing, Scott, and Goodman, Paul (1970 Introduction by) - 1970

New York.: Galahad Books by arr. w/ Schocken Books, 1970. Originally published in 1954.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Front lower jacket edge wear. Light cover and top page block soiling.. 1 Copper paper over boards. 213 p. B&W photos. Bibliography. Index. Audience: General/trade. By the 1960s, Scott and Helen Nearing, would be central to a back-to-the-land societal interest in hands-on self-sufficiency, clarified in "Living the Good Life". During the Great Depression, the Nearings moved in 1932 from New York City to a farm in the pre-industrial, rural community in the Green Mountains of Vermont. They were pacifists in a pre World War II world. And they were vegetarians who pursued collectivism. They were teachers turned away from classrooms in a politically charged climate. and they established a subsistence farmstead, published their life and became sustainability icons.