From the back cover:

"Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social debate: not liberal (he hates big government), not conservative (he hates big corporations), not libertarian (he would balance individual rights along with those of the commonwealth), but always sharp-tongued and aglow with common sense." Kirkus Reviews

"Berry's words are those of a steward.He is trying to preserve that which is intimate, honest and good. He is an intense, angry, but always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to instill a sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to build -- or rebuild -- their local communities." Lexington Herald-Leader

"Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clearsighted thinkers; one can hardly speak of him without the word 'prophetic' coming to mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead, his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our shallow ideological camps." Caelum Et Terra

"Read [him] with pencil inhand, make notes and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." The New York Times Book Review

Cover design by Marjorie Anderson. Cover photograph by Richard Sylvarnes. 177 pages.

Contents:

The Joy of Sales Resistance;

Conservation and Local Economy;

Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse;

Conservation is Good Work;

A Bad Big Idea;

The Problem of Tobacco;

Peaceableness Toward Enemies;

Christianity and the Survival of Creation;

Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community

Links:

Abstract of "Conservation and Local Economy" from Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community. (Cornell)

"Peaceableness Toward Enemies"

"Christianity and the Survival of Creation"

"The Joy of Sales Resistance" From Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (list posting)