A remarkably productive writer, speaker, and educator, Scott Nearing completed significant publications nearly every single year of his adult life; further, he demonstrated in his published work an ability to envision developments in politics and economics far in advance of other thinkers. As early as the second decade of the twentieth century, Nearing published works on the malign nature of white supremacy as a threat to world peace and the relationship between the oil trade and world war--two themes that proved relevant to the rest of the century. He has long been noted as a pioneer of the "back to the land" movement associated with the 1960s; he decided on this course in 1932. The previous year he had written a pamphlet called Another World War. Finally, Nearing's career is like no other among his peers in that he is one of the only radical leftists involved in the...