Citizenship Papers: Essays
by Wendell Berry
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Author: Wendell BerryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-18
ISBN: 159376037X
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
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Book Review: Rethinking America's Values and Priorities
Summary: 5 Stars
Wendell Berry's essays ought to be required reading for any federal policy-makers. It questions the wisdom of our current "War on Terror" and the efficacy of violence to end violence. Berry also asks astute questions to the religious (or those who feign religiosity): what does it mean to be truly Christian? Is it enough to merely support a nominally Christian and coservative President? Berry asserts that real Christianity is found, significantly, in doing Christian acts. Peace, Berry tells us, is much more than the absence of war, but a condition towards which all must cooperatively work together.
Berry asks the questions that Americans need to be asking themselves right now. What does it mean to be American? Berry recognizes the deep importance of this question, and seeks its answer. Perhaps more importantly, however, Berry encourages the reader to ask this question of himself, and to seek his own answer.
Summary of Citizenship Papers: Essays
There are those in America today who seem to feel we must audition for our citizenship, with "Patriot" offered as the badge for those found narrowly worthy. Let this book stand as Wendell Berry?s application, for he is one of those faithful, devoted critics envisioned by the Founding Fathers to be the life?s blood and very future of the nation they imagined. Adams, Jefferson, and Madison would have found great clarity in his prose and great hope in his vision. And today?s readers will be moved and encouraged by his anger and his refusal to surrender in the face of desperate odds. Books get written for all sorts of reasons, and this book was written out of necessity. Citizenship Papers, a collection of 19 essays, is a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe.Natural Resources Books
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