From the book jacket:

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 encounged by 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.

"The time will soon come when we will not be able to remember the horrors of September 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that day." - "Thoughts in the Presence of Fear"

Cover design by David Bullen. 189 pages.

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?

Links:

"A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America" (Orion Magazine)

"A Citizen's Response" (quietspaces.com)

"The Prejudice Against Country People" (The Progressive, April 2002)

"The Agrarian Standard"

"Thoughts in the Presence of Fear" (Reflections on 9.11)

"The Failure of War" (Yes!)

"The Failure of War" (Common Dreams)

"In Distrust of Movements" (Resurgence 198)

A Review of Wendell Berry's Citizenship Papers (actually more of a casual reflection by Jonathan Williams)

Brief review of Citizenship Papers by Frederick Kirschenmann