Citizenship Papers: Essays - Softcover

Berry, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159376037X ISBN 13: 9781593760373

Verlag: Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc, 2004

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The critically acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist presents a new collection of twenty thought-provoking essays that offer everything from critiques of the American experience to a celebration of ordinary lives to a determined warning about the future of the country.

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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 nineteen 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.

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• Verlag: Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 159376037X
• ISBN 13: 9781593760373
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208