Plato's Legions

The book is unpublished before written in 1983 political Utopia.

What makes it a brave new entry to genre?

The Faber Book of Utopias edited by John Carey (c) 1999 gives following description:

Utopias elude definition. The genre merged, at its edges, into related forms - the imaginary voyage, the earthly or heavenly Paradise, the political manifesto or Constitution. But an average, middle-of-the road Utopia will include transit to some other places, remote in space or time or both, where inhabitants are different from us, perhaps recognizably human, perhaps not, and where something can be learned about how life should be lived.

Born in Glencoe, Oklahoma, the writer communicated with the publisher from after his death by leaving his unpublished manuscript to a secondhand bookstore, where i, having a title of Lady of Glencoe, took it as an invitation to look inside. I found more coincidences: my father worked for United Nations when i was a kid at time when such Utopias were still widely discussed at dinner table.

Starting as benevolent Macciavelli's Prince and merging with Emil by Voltaire, it gives perceverent and focused routines of building of character from health advice to education curriculum.

It intertwines with a road journey from Harvard to a wedding in St. Louis, and

ends up with outlines for future society we strive for: one without war and hunger.

Realistic? Much more than Thomas More or Francis Bacon and built on firm ground of familiar territories.

Good as either political compendium or leisure reading, or both at once.