![]() ![]() ![]() In Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever-seceding from the United States. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. “We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.”Ī book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic.Īs the host of Radio Free Vermont-"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"-seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. ![]()
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