The sequel to Looking Backward: Julian West, awake in the year 2000, is taken through the economics of the new order — how the credit card works, why there is no money, what happened to the lawyers, what the women wear and why. Bellamy's first book sold hundreds of thousands and spawned more than 160 Nationalist Clubs across America; this one is the argument he thought the first had left unfinished, and he answers his critics by name.