Screen LibraryCitizenship papers /
The novelist, poet, and essayist presents a collection of twenty 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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| Published: |
Counterpoint,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley, California : |
| Publication Dates: | c2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
The novelist, poet, and essayist presents a collection of twenty 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. |
| Item Description: | Previously published articles. |
| Carrier Form: | 189 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781619024373 1619024373 |
| Index Number: | HD1761 |
| CLC: | I712.84 |
| Call Number: | I712.84/B534 |
| Contents: | A citizen's response -- Thoughts in the presence of fear -- The failure of war -- Going to work -- In distrust of movements -- Twelve paragraphs on biotechnology -- Let the farm judge -- The total economy -- A long job, too late to quit -- Two minds -- The prejudice against country people -- The whole horse -- Stupidity in concentration -- Watershed and commonwealth -- The agrarian standard -- Still standing -- Conservationist and agrarian -- Tuscany -- Is life a miracle? |