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Title: What Are People For? by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0-86547-437-0 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Should Be Read By All
Comment: This book sits on my coffee table in the living room. I draw from Mr. Berry's philosophy and writings almost daily. This book should be required reading in colleges and universities. It speaks of the sensibilities most of us have forgotten. I have loaned my copy to many friends, all have read it, it has changed the way they approach their lives and how they look at how we all live.
Rating: 5
Summary: If Only More People Listened
Comment: I do not agree with everything Berry says in this book, but I must confess that he changed the way I see the world. His lucid dissections of American culture and economical practices, his bottom-up solutions to the problems facing us today, and his unselfish, honest prose convinced me of most of his points. Here is a writer not in it for fame or awards or prestige. Here we have a truly passionate, motivated, moral voice for these hollow times.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gentle voice for common sense
Comment: Berry hits another homerun in this collection. This Jeffersonian throwback offers us a vision of life far removed from the shopping mall mania that is stripping much of our countryside of its natural beauty. Berry, instead, suggests that a return to basics is the best way to ensure our independence, freedom and quality of life. Berry argues, as did T.S. Eliot, that a wrong attitude toward nature suggests a wrong attitude toward God. He introduces us to men whose greatness lies in being themselves -- a black farmer named Nate Shaw, a Kentucky environmentalist named Harry Caudill, and writer Edward Abby. He explores Huck Finn and A River Runs Through It, he suggests that an education that does not prepare us to take care of ourselves cannot be complete and argues that our educational system prepares us mainly to function as cogs in an industrial society. In short, Berry sustains his claim, made in most of his books, that we need to slow down our lives, rebuild human connections, value the land around us for its intrinsic worth, and cultivate our souls by cultivating our garden, if you will. As a previous reviewer points out, Berry does not fit easily into any political movement of today -- that is because there is no Jeffersonian movement to speak of, the democrats having abandoned local empowerment, the conservatives, too many of them, having embraced corporate power. Berry's is a voice that needs to be heard.
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Title: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0679756515 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World (The New Patriotism Series, Vol. 1) by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0913098604 Publisher: Orion Society Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0871568772 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1582431418 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba, Edited, Introduced by Norman Wirzba ISBN: 1582431469 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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