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A two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful

By Staff Reports | November 18, 2014

Wendell Berry

Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement. Its roots lay within the mythos of the early American Republic, which cast the self-sufficient yeoman farm family as the foundation of ordered liberty. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1785: Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Agrarians, Andrew Lytle, Ralph Borsodi, Southern U.S., Wendell Berry

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