Citizenship Papers Essays

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9781593760007
• ISBN10: 1593760000
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-08
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

Citizenship papers, n 1. Materials prepared for presentation to authorities when making an application for citizenship. 2. Documents presented as proof of citizenship.

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 collects twenty new essays, from celebrations of exemplary lives to critiques of American life, including "A Citizen’s Response [to the new National Security Strategy]"—a ringing call of caution to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe.

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is a former professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

A Citizen's Response	p. 1
Thoughts in the Presence of Fear	p. 17
The Failure of War	p. 23
Going to Work	p. 33
In Distrust of Movements	p. 43
Twelve Paragraphs on Biotechnology	p. 53
Let the Farm Judge	p. 57
The Total Economy	p. 63
A Long Job, Too Late to Quit	p. 77
Two Minds	p. 85
The Prejudice Against Country People	p. 107
The Whole Horse	p. 113
Stupidity in Concentration	p. 127
Watershed and Commonwealth	p. 135
The Agrarian Standard	p. 143
Still Standing	p. 153
Conservationist and Agrarian	p. 165
Tuscany	p. 175
Is Life a Miracle?	p. 181
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