The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America

"In 1832 a young American student named Albert Brisbane met the Frenchman, by then a frustrated and bitter old prophet, and was promptly converted. When Brisbane returned to America, his energetic and persistent propogandizing--boosted immeasurably by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune--created a burst of Fourierist activity in the nothern states almost overnight" (2).

A section entitled "The Odyssey of Albert Brisbane" describes Brisbane's association with Fourierism (25-36).

Reprinted photograph of Brisbane (219).

"In 1832 a young American student named Albert Brisbane met the Frenchman, by then a frustrated and bitter old prophet, and was promptly converted. When Brisbane returned to America, his energetic and persistent propogandizing--boosted immeasurably by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune--created a burst of Fourierist activity in the nothern states almost overnight" (2).

It appears that the Tribune under Greeley endorsed Fourierism, and Greeley was active in Fourierist organizations and activities (36).

A section about Horace Greeley's interactions with Fourierism: "Horace Greeley: Association and the Whigs" (36-46).