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The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers

Scott Nearing (1883-1983)

Helen Nearing (1904-1995)

Scott Nearing: An Alphabetical Bibliography

An ABC of Communism (S.l.: s.n., 1934)
Address to the Jury (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1918)
The American Empire (New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1921)
Anthracite: An Instance of Natural Resource Monopoly (1915; reprinted, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971)
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin With an introduction By Scott Nearing (New York: The Leonard Press, 1922)
Before the Court (New York: People's Print, 1919)
Black America (New York: Vanguard, 1929; reprinted, New York: Schocken Books, 1969)
Bolshevism and the West: A Debate on the Resolution "That the Soviet Form of Government is Applicable to Western Civilization" debate with Bertrand Russell (London: G. Allen, Unwin, 1924; reprinted, New York: Gordon Press, 1974))
The British General Strike: An Economic Interpretation of Its Background and Its Significance (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926)
British Labor Bids for Power: The Historic Scarboro Conference of the Trade Union Congress (New York: Social Science, 1926)
Can Britain Escape the Revolution? (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1924)
Can the Church be Radical? debate with John Haynes Holmes (New York: The Hanford Press, 1922)
Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1975)
The Coal Question: Some Reasons Why it is Pressing and Some Suggestions for Solving It (New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1918)
Community Civics with Jessie Field (New York: Macmillan, 1916)
The Conscience of a Radical (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1965)
The Cost of Living: Weekly Letter to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Cuba and Latin America: An Eyewitness Report on the Continental Congress for Solidarity with Cuba (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1963)
The Debs Decision (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
The Decisive Year, 1931: Capitalism, Imperialism, Sovietism before the Bar of History (New York: Urquart Press, 1932)
Democracy is Not Enough (New York: Island Workshop, 1945)
Dollar Diplomacy: A Study in American Imperialism with Joseph Freeman (New York: B.W. Huebsch and the Viking Press, 1925; reprinted, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966; New York: Arno Press, 1970)
Economic Crisis in the United States (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1961)
The Economic Organization of the Soviet Union with Jack Hardy (New York: Vanguard Press, 1927)
Economics with Frank Watson (New York: Macmillan, 1908)
Economics for the Power Age: A Statement of First Principles (New York: J. Day, 1952; reprinted, New York, Schocken, 1972)
Education in Soviet Russia (New York: International Publishers, 1926)
Educational Frontiers: A Book about Simon Nelson Patten and Other Teachers (New York: T. Seltzer, 1925)
Elements of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions, for the Use of High Schools with Henry Reed Burch (New York: Macmillan,1912)
Europe: West and East (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1934)
Europe and the Next War (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
Europe in Revolution: A Letter (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
The European Civil War: The First Twenty Years, 1917-1936 (Baltimore: Christian Social Science Fund, 1936)
Fascism (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1930)
Financing the Wage Earner's Family: A Survey of the Facts Bearing on Income and Expenditures in the Families of American Wage-earners (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1913)
Free Born: An Unpublishable Novel (New York: Urquart Press, 1932; reprinted Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972)
Freedom: Promise and Menace: A Critique of the Cult of Freedom (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1961)
From Capitalism to Communism (S.l.: s.n., 1945)
The Future of Capitalism and Socialism in America debate with Sam A. Lewisohn, M.C. Rorty and Morris Hillquit (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1927)
The Germs of War: A Study in Preparedness (St. Louis, MO: The National Rip-saw Pub. Co., 1916)
Glimpses of the Soviet Republic (New York: Social Science, 1926)
The Great Madness: A Victory for the American Plutocracy (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
Has Propaganda Any Value in Education? debate with Alexis Fermi (New York: Modern School Press, 1925)
The Human Element in Economics (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
A Humanist Approach to Economics (Salt Lake City: The Humanist, 1930)
Income: An Examination of the Returns for Services Rendered and from Property Owned in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1915)
Irrepressible America (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1922)
Labor and the League of Nations (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
The Law of Social Revolution: A Cooperative Study by the Labor Research Study Group with associates (New York: Social Science, 1926)
A Letter of Explanation (Toledo: s.n., 1917)
The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (New York: Harper and Row, 1972)
Man's Search for the Good Life (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1954; revised, Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute,1974)
The Menace of Militarism (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
Must We Starve? (New York: Vanguard, 1932)
A Nation Divided, or, Plutocracy versus Democracy (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, 1920)
The New Age: Will It be Dark or Golden? (New York, Island, 1945)
The New Education: A Review of the Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (Chicago: Row, Peterson, 1915; reprinted, New York, Arno Press, 1969)
The New Slavery, or, The World Made Safe for Plutocracy (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, 1920)
The New World Order and Some of Its Immediate Problems (Washington, DC: World Events, 1946)
The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1922)
Oil and the Germs of War ((Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1923)
The One Big Union of Business (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
The One Way Out (New York: Urquart, 1932)
Open Letter to Profiteers (New York: People's Council of America, 1916)
Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Regime (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1916)
Profiteering (S.l.: s.n., 1920)
Profiteering: Weekly Letter No. 2 to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Public Opinion and the Town Meeting Idea symposium with Dorothy Thompson and Lawrence Dennis (New York: American Book, 1936)
Rationalism vs. Socialism debate with Percy Ward (Chicago: s.l., 1921)
Reducing the Cost of Living (Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1914)
Resolved: That Capitalism Has More to Offer the Workers of the United States than Has Socialism debate with Edwin R. Seligman (New York: Convention Reporting, 1921)
Resolved: That Capitalism Offers More to the Workers of the World than Socialism or Communism debate with A.F. Seligman (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1930)
The Revolution of Our Time (New York: Island, 1947)
The Right and Duty of Free Speech: An Answer to Rev. A.A. Stockdale (Toldeo: s.n. 1917)
The Rise and Decline of Christian Civilization (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1940)
Russia Turns East: The Triumph of Soviet Diplomacy in Asia (New York: Social Science, 1926)
A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times, edited by Steve Sherman; foreword by Helen Nearing (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989)
The Second World War: An Evaluation (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1940)
Should Socialism Prevail? debate with Morris Hillquit, Rev. John L. Bedford, and Prof. Frederick M. Davenport (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1915)
Should the United State and Great Britain Police the World? debate with Harry Watson (New York: Spinoza Institute, 1943)
Social Adjustment (New York: Macmillan, 1911)
Social Religion: A Discussion of the Place of Social Welfare in a Religious Program (Philadelphia: Friends' General Conference, 1910)
Social Religion: An Interpretation of Christianity in Terms of Modern Life (New York: Macmillan, 1913)
Social Sanity (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1913)
Socialism in Practice: The Transformation of east Europe (New York: New Century, 1962)
The Solution of the Child Labor Problem (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1911)
Sound the Alarm (New York: Monthly Review, 1949)
Soviet Education: What Does It Offer to America? (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1949)
The Soviet Union as a World Power (New York: Island, 1945)
Stopping a War: The Fight of the French Workers against the Moroccan Campaign of 1925 (New York: Social Science, 1926)
The Super Race: An American Problem (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912)
To Promote the General Welfare: An Essay on the Powers and Duties of Government and the Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities of Citizens (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1956)
The Tragedy of Empire (New York: Island, 1945)
The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919; reprinted, New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; New York: Garland, 1972)
The Twilight of Empire: An Economic Interpretation of Imperialist Cycles (New York: Vanguard, 1930)
United World: The Road to International Peace (New York, Island, 1945)
Victory Without Peace (Washington, DC: World Events, 1946)
Violence or Solidarity, or, Will Guns Settle It? (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
Wages in the United States, 1908-1019: A Study of State and Federal Wage Statistics (New York: Macmillan, 1914)
War or Peace? (New York: Island, 1946)
War: Organized Destruction and Mass Murder by Civilized Nations (New York: Vanguard, 1931; reprinted, New York: Garland Pub., 1971 [i.e.1972])
A Warless World (New York: s.n., 1930)
Where is Civilization Going? (New York: Vanguard, 1927)
Which Offers More for the Future: Communism, Socialism, or Capitalism? debate with Norman Thomas and Don D. Lescohier (Chicago: Popular Interest, 1932)
Whither China?: An Economic Interpretation of Recent Events in the Far East (New York: International Publishers, 1927; reprinted, Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1977)
Who Owns the United States?: Weekly Letter No. 4 to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Why Hard Times?: A Study of the Economic and Social Forces that are Sweeping Away Capitalist Imperialism (New York: Urquart, 1932)
Why I am a Teacher (Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle Press, 1994)
Will Democracy Cure the Ills of the World? debate with Clarence Darrow (Chicago: Workers' University Society, 1917)
Women and Social Progress: A Discussion of the Biologic, Domestic, Industrial, and Social Possibilities of American Women with Nellie Seeds Nearing (New York: Macmillan, 1912)
Women in American Industry (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, 1915)
Work and Pay (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
World Labor Unity (New York: Social Science, 1926)
World Perspective: A Survey, Analysis and Synthesis (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1937)
Would the Practice of Christ's Teachings Make for Social Progress? debate with Percy Ward (Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, 1920)

Scott Nearing: A Chronological Bibliography

1908-1919

Economics with Frank Watson (New York: Macmillan, 1908)
Social religion: A Discussion of the Place of Social Welfare in a Religious Program (Philadelphia: Friends' General Conference, 1910)
Social Adjustment (New York: Macmillan, 1911)
The Solution of the Child Labor Problem (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1911)
Elements of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions, for the Use of High Schools with Henry Reed Burch (New York: Macmillan,1912)
The Super Race: An American Problem (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912)
Women and Social Progress: A Discussion of the Biologic, Domestic, Industrial, and Social Possibilities of American Women with Nellie Seeds Nearing (New York: Macmillan, 1912)
Social Religion: An Interpretation of Christianity in Terms of Modern Life (New York: Macmillan, 1913)
Social Sanity (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1913)
Financing the Wage Earner's Family: A Survey of the Facts Bearing on Income and Expenditures in the Families of American Wage-earners (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1913)
Wages in the United States, 1908-1019: A Study of State and Federal Wage Statistics (New York: Macmillan, 1914)
Reducing the Cost of Living (Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1914)
Anthracite: An Instance of Natural Resource Monopoly (1915; reprinted, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971)
Income: An Examination of the Returns for Services Rendered and from Property Owned in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1915)
The New Education: A Review of the Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (Chicago: Row, Peterson, 1915; reprinted, New York, Arno Press, 1969)
Should Socialism Prevail? debate with Morris Hillquit, Rev. John L. Bedford, and Prof. Frederick M. Davenport (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1915)
Women in American Industry (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, 1915)
Community Civics with Jessie Field (New York: Macmillan, 1916)
The Germs of War: A Study in Preparedness (St. Louis, MO: The National Rip-saw Pub. Co., 1916)
Open Letter to Profiteers (New York: People's Council of America, 1916)
Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Regime (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1916)
The Great Madness: A Victory for the American Plutocracy (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
A Letter of Explanation (Toledo: s.n., 1917)
The Menace of Militarism (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
The Right and Duty of Free Speech: An Answer to Rev. A.A. Stockdale (Toldeo: s.n. 1917)
Will Democracy Cure the Ills of the World? debate with Clarence Darrow (Chicago: Workers' University Society, 1917)
Work and Pay (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1917)
Address to the Jury (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1918)
The Coal Question: Some Reasons Why it is Pressing and Some Suggestions for Solving It (New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1918)
The Cost of Living: Weekly Letter to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Profiteering: Weekly Letter No. 2 to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Who Owns the United States?: Weekly Letter No. 4 to the Citizens of the Fourteenth Congressional District (New York: s.n., 1918)
Before the Court (New York: People's Print, 1919)
The Debs Decision (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
The Human Element in Economics (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
Labor and the League of Nations (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)
The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919; reprinted, New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; New York: Garland, 1972)
Violence or Solidarity, or, Will Guns Settle It? (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919)

1920's

Europe and the Next War (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
Europe in Revolution: A Letter (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
A Nation Divided, or, Plutocracy versus Democracy (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, 1920)
The New Slavery, or, The World Made Safe for Plutocracy (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, 1920)
The One Big Union of Business (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1920)
Profiteering (S.l.: s.n., 1920)
Would the Practice of Christ's Teachings Make for Social Progress? debate with Percy Ward (Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, 1920)
The American Empire (New York: The Rand School of Social Science, 1921)
Rationalism vs. Socialism debate with Percy Ward (Chicago: s.l., 1921)
Resolved: That Capitalism Has More to Offer the Workers of the United States than Has Socialism debate with Edwin R. Seligman (New York: Convention Reporting, 1921)
Can the Church be Radical? debate with John Haynes Holmes (New York: The Hanford Press, 1922)
Irrepressible America (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1922)
The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1922)
Oil and the Germs of War ((Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1923)
Bolshevism and the West: A Debate on the Resolution "That the Soviet Form of Government is Applicable to Western Civilization" debate with Bertrand Russell (London: G. Allen, Unwin, 1924; reprinted, New York: Gordon Press, 1974))
Can Britain Escape the Revolution? (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1924)
Educational Frontiers: A Book about Simon Nelson Patten and Other Teachers (New York: T. Seltzer, 1925)
Dollar Diplomacy: A Study in American Imperialism with Joseph Freeman (New York: B.W. Huebsch and the Viking Press, 1925; reprinted, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966; New York: Arno Press, 1970)
Has Propaganda Any Value in Education? debate with Alexis Fermi (New York: Modern School Press, 1925)
The British General Strike: An Economic Interpretation of Its Background and Its Significance (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926)
British Labor Bids for Power: The Historic Scarboro Conference of the Trade Union Congress (New York: Social Science, 1926)
Education in Soviet Russia (New York: International Publishers, 1926)
Glimpses of the Soviet Republic (New York: Social Science, 1926)
The Law of Social Revolution: A Cooperative Study by the Labor Research Study Group with associates (New York: Social Science, 1926)
Russia Turns East: The Triumph of Soviet Diplomacy in Asia (New York: Social Science, 1926)
Stopping a War: The Fight of the French Workers against the Moroccan Campaign of 1925 (New York: Social Science, 1926)
World Labor Unity (New York: Social Science, 1926)
The Economic Organization of the Soviet Union with Jack Hardy (New York: Vanguard Press, 1927)
The Future of Capitalism and Socialism in America debate with Sam A. Lewisohn, M.C. Rorty and Morris Hillquit (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1927)
Where is Civilization Going? (New York: Vanguard, 1927)
Whither China?: An Economic Interpretation of Recent Events in the Far East (New York: International Publishers, 1927; reprinted, Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1977)
Black America (New York: Vanguard, 1929; reprinted, New York: Schocken Books, 1969)

1930's

Fascism (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1930)
A Humanist Approach to Economics (Salt Lake City: The Humanist, 1930)
Resolved: That Capitalism Offers More to the Workers of the World than Socialism or Communism debate with A.F. Seligman (New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1930)
The Twilight of Empire: An Economic Interpretation of Imperialist Cycles (New York: Vanguard, 1930)
War: Organized Destruction and Mass Murder by Civilized Nations (New York: Vanguard, 1931; reprinted, New York: Garland Pub., 1971 [i.e.1972])
A Warless World (New York: s.n., 1930)
The Decisive Year, 1931: Capitalism, Imperialism, Sovietism before the Bar of History (New York: Urquart Press, 1932)
Free Born: An Unpublishable Novel (New York: Urquart Press, 1932; reprinted Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972)
Must We Starve? (New York: Vanguard, 1932)
The One Way Out (New York: Urquart, 1932)
Which Offers More for the Future: Communism, Socialism, or Capitalism? debate with Norman Thomas and Don D. Lescohier (Chicago: Popular Interest, 1932)
Why Hard Times?: A Study of the Economic and Social Forces that are Sweeping Away Capitalist Imperialism (New York: Urquart, 1932)
An ABC of Communism (S.l.: s.n., 1934)
Europe: West and East (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1934)
The European Civil War: The First Twenty Years, 1917-1936 (Baltimore: Christian Social Science Fund, 1936)
Public Opinion and the Town Meeting Idea symposium with Dorothy Thompson and Lawrence Dennis (New York: American Book, 1936)
World Perspective: A Survey, Analysis and Synthesis (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1937)

1940's

The Rise and Decline of Christian Civilization (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1940)
The Second World War: An Evaluation (Ridgewood, NJ: N.S. Nearing, 1940)
Should the United State and Great Britain Police the World? debate with Harry Watson (New York: Spinoza Institute, 1943)
Democracy is Not Enough (New York: Island Workshop, 1945)
From Capitalism to Communism (S.l.: s.n., 1945)
The Soviet Union as a World Power (New York: Island, 1945)
The Tragedy of Empire (New York: Island, 1945)
United World: The Road to International Peace (New York, Island, 1945)
The New Age: Will It be Dark or Golden? (New York, Island, 1945)
United World: The Road to International Peace (New York, Island, 1945)
The New World Order and Some of Its Immediate Problems (Washington, DC: World Events, 1946)
Victory Without Peace (Washington, DC: World Events, 1946)
War or Peace? (New York: Island, 1946)
The Revolution of Our Time (New York: Island, 1947)
Sound the Alarm (New York: Monthly Review, 1949)
Soviet Education: What Does It Offer to America? (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1949)

1950-1983

Economics for the Power Age: A Statement of First Principles (New York: J. Day, 1952; reprinted, New York, Schocken, 1972)
Man's Search for the Good Life (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1954; revised, Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute,1974)
To Promote the General Welfare: An Essay on the Powers and Duties of Government and the Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities of Citizens (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1956)
Economic Crisis in the United States (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1961)
Freedom: Promise and Menace: A Critique of the Cult of Freedom (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1961)
Socialism in Practice: The Transformation of east Europe (New York: New Century, 1962)
Cuba and Latin America: An Eyewitness Report on the Continental Congress for Solidarity with Cuba (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1963)
The Conscience of a Radical (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1965)
The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (New York: Harper and Row, 1972)
Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1975)

Posthumous

A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times, edited by Steve Sherman; foreword by Helen Nearing (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989)
Why I am a Teacher (Jamaica, VT: Bull Thistle Press, 1994)

Helen Nearing: Bibliography

The Good Life Album of Helen & Scott Nearing (New York: Sunrise Books/E.P. Dutton, 1974)
Light on Aging and Dying (Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 1995)
Loving and Leaving the Good Life (Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1992)
Our Home Made of Stone: Building in Our Seventies and Nineties (Camden, ME: Down east Books, 1983)
Simple Food for the Good Life: An Alternative Cookbook (New York: Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1980; reprinted, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green 1999)
Wise Words for the Good Life: A Homesteader's Personal Collection (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1999)
Wise Words of the Good Life: An Anthology of Quotations (New York: Schocken Books, 1980)

Scott and Helen Nearing: Bibliography

The Brave New World (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute,1958)
Building and Using Our Sun-Heated Greenhouse: Grow Vegetables All Year-Round (Charlotte, VT: Garden Way, 1977)
Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading (New York: Schocken Books, 1979)
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-sufficient Living (New York: Schocken Books, 1989)
Living the Good Life: Being a Plain Practical Account of a Twenty Year Project in a Self-Subsistent Homestead in Vermont, Together with Remarks on How to Live Sanely & Simply in a Troubled World (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute,1954; reprinted, New York: Schocken Books, 1974; New York: Galahad Books, 1974)
The Maple Sugar Book: Being a Plain, Practical Account of the Art of Sugaring Designed to Promote an Acquaintance with the Ancient as Well as the Modern Practice, Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a Way of Living in the Twentieth Century (New York: J. Day, 1950; reprinted, New York: Schocken Books, 1970; New York: Galahad Books, 1975; White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2000)
Our Right to Travel (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1959)
Scott & Helen Nearing's Guiding Principles for a Good Life (Harborside, ME: The Good Life Center, 1997)
Socialists Around the World (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958)
USA Today: Reporting Extensive Journeys and First-hand Observations, Commenting on Their Meaning, and Offering Conclusions Regarding Present-day Trends in the Domestic and Foreign Affairs of the United States (Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1955)

The Nearings also wrote regularly for Mother Earth News in the 1970's and early-1980's.

Books about the Nearings

LaConte, Ellen. Free Radical: Rethinking the Good Death of Scott Nearing (Stockton Springs, ME: Loose Leaf Press, 1996)
LaConte, Ellen. On Light Alone: A Guru Meditation on the Good Death of Helen Nearing ( Stockton Springs, ME: Loose Leaf Press, 1996)
Saltmarsh, John A. Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991; reprinted as Scott Nearing: The Making of a Homesteader, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 1998)
Whitfield, Stephen J. Scott Nearing: Apostle of American Radicalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974)
Witmer, Lightner. The Nearing Case: The Limitation of Academic Freedom at the University of Pennsylvania by Act of the Board of Trustees, June 14, 1915: A Brief of Facts and Opinions. (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1915; reprinted, S. Hackensack, NJ: Rothman reprints, 1972; New York: Da Capo Press, 1974)