That’s one description of Bill Kauffman’s just-released Look Homeward America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists. Based on what I’ve seen, it continues the project Kauffman started in his earlier America First! of tracing a counter-tradition of American politics that dissents from the bipartisan consensus on the mega-state, corporate capitalism, and global interventionism. LHA discusses such unclassifiable figures as Dorothy Day and Wendell Berry, just as America First! sang the praises of American isolationists, pacifists, radical decentralists and regionalists who embodied the virtues of loyalty to a specific place and tradition. His Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette recounts Kauffman’s own journey from an aspiring D.C. policy wonk back to his roots in upstate New York and cultivation of a “localist” sensibility. You might describe his ideology as a kind of rooted libertarianism.

ISI books has set up a blog to promote the book with contributions from Kauffman and others such as Reason magazine’s Jesse Walker, Caleb Stegall of the New Pantagruel, and Daniel McCarthy of The American Conservative.