What Are People For?: Essays

What Are People For?: Essays
by Wendell Berry

What Are People For?: Essays
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Author: Wendell Berry
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1990-04-01
ISBN: 0865474370
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: North Point Press

Summary of What Are People For?: Essays

In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called ?the prophetic American voice of our day,? conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry talks to the reader as one would talk to a next-door neighbor: never preachy, he comes across as someone offering sound advice. He speaks with sadness of the greedy consumption of this country?s natural resources and the grim consequences Americans must face if current economic practices do not change drastically. In the end, these essays offer rays of hope in an otherwise bleak forecast of America's future. Berry?s program presents convincing steps for America?s agricultural and cultural survival.

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