LeaLuke Lea was born in 1942 in the mid-sized industrial city Chattanooga, Tennessee, where his parents were active in the American labor movement. He attended Reed College and Johns Hopkins University, majoring in literature and mathematics. Although nminated for a Marshall Scholarship at the end of his senior year, he chose a life of part-time manual labor as better suited to the search for what is fairest and most beautiful in the world of all possible ideas, several candidates for which are described in this book. Now retired, he divides his time between a small town in New England, where his father's side of the family largely originated, and an even smaller town in Southern Appalachia, where his mother's side has long been established. Read More Read Less