@article{889965,
      note = {"Including The Unsettling of America and selections from  The Long-Legged House, The Hidden Wound, A Continuous  Harmony, Recollected Essays, The Gift of Good Land,  Standing by Words, Home Economics, What are People For?"},
      author = {Berry, Wendell, and Shoemaker, Jack,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889965},
      title = {Essays 1969-1990 /},
      abstract = {Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a  compassionate and compelling voice for our time of  political and cultural distrust and division, whether  expounding the joys and wisdom of nonindustrial  agriculture, relishing the pleasure of eating food produced  locally by people you know, or giving voice to a righteous  contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important  writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrialization  and mass consumerism, and the vital role of rural,  sustainable farming in preserving the planet as well as our  national character. Now, in celebration of Berry's  extraordinary six-decade-long career, Library of America  presents a two-volume selection of his nonfiction writings  prepared in close consultation with the author. This first  volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different  books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969),  What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative  essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the  complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America  (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological,  economic, and human costs of industrial agriculture has, as  the author notes, "not had the happy fate of being proved  wrong." Berry's essays remain timely, even urgent today,  and will resonate with anyone interested in our  relationship to the natural world and especially with a  younger, politically engaged generation invested in the  future welfare of the planet.},
      recid = {889965},
      pages = {xiv, 827 pages ;},
}