Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea
by Victor Davis Hanson
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Free Press, 1996. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.75 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches) 320 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. America's disappearing family farmer is often portrayed as either a figure of pitiable tragedy or glorified romance. But in one of the most unusual books ever written on farming, farmer and Greek scholar Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains how neither portrait conveys what really matters about farming. As the family farm all but vanishes
in our nation, it is neither food production nor the environment that will most suffer but rather our nation will lose its last real connection with the virtues and work ethic that our founding fathers had themselves inherited from the wisdom of classical Greek culture and upon which American society rests.
A fifth-generation vine and fruit grower, Hanson furnishes unsparing portraits of these vanishing agrarians through tales of their perseverance, pain, faith and baser tendencies as well. Painting a vivid contrast between true agrarians and the corrupt routines of contemporary life, Hanson provides a brutally honest memoir that will contradict quaint notions of the family farm of movies and television. But out of this intimate essay on the trials of working the land emerges something of greater importance: a defense of the agrarian idea as central to the virtues that shaped America, rooted in both the principles of the ancient Greeks and the modern knowledge we hold true today.
A genuine and timeless account, Fields Without Dreams will be unforgettable reading on the realities of a disappearing American tradition.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. America's disappearing family farmer is often portrayed as either a figure of pitiable tragedy or glorified romance. But in one of the most unusual books ever written on farming, farmer and Greek scholar Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains how neither portrait conveys what really matters about farming. As the family farm all but vanishes
in our nation, it is neither food production nor the environment that will most suffer but rather our nation will lose its last real connection with the virtues and work ethic that our founding fathers had themselves inherited from the wisdom of classical Greek culture and upon which American society rests.
A fifth-generation vine and fruit grower, Hanson furnishes unsparing portraits of these vanishing agrarians through tales of their perseverance, pain, faith and baser tendencies as well. Painting a vivid contrast between true agrarians and the corrupt routines of contemporary life, Hanson provides a brutally honest memoir that will contradict quaint notions of the family farm of movies and television. But out of this intimate essay on the trials of working the land emerges something of greater importance: a defense of the agrarian idea as central to the virtues that shaped America, rooted in both the principles of the ancient Greeks and the modern knowledge we hold true today.
A genuine and timeless account, Fields Without Dreams will be unforgettable reading on the realities of a disappearing American tradition.
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- Title
- Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea
- Author
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684822997
- ISBN 13
- 9780684822990
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Farming, Agriculture, US history, America, Farmers, Greek Scholar, Agrarians, Memoir, Biography, Manual labor, Planting, Wisdom
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