Torches Together: The Story of the Bruderhof Communities

231 pp. Twice in the last century -- the early 1920s (in Germany) and the late 60s (in America) -- hordes of young people defied the middle-class mores of their parents and sought fellowship with their peers in rural communes. Sadly, Nazism swallowed the German movement virtually whole -- and Wall Street, though in entirely different fashion, did the same to the American one.