Winter 2006

Skinner's Utopia

by James Gilbert

James Gilbert on an illusory Utopia

LIVING WALDEN TWO:
B. F. Skinner’s Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities.
By Hilke Kuhlmann.
Univ. of Illinois Press. 245 pp. $35


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  • James Gilbert, a professor of modern American history at the University of Maryland, is the author of Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias in the 1890s (1991) and other works.

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