Angel in the ForestAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism