The Unsettling of America

Culture and Agriculture

Hardcover, 228 pages

English language

Published June 12, 1982 by Random House, Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-87156-194-7
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OCLC Number:
2836944

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Review of 'The Unsettling of America' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Struggled with what to rate this. By and large I think it was a 4-5 star book for me with a handful of 2 star detours. The overall thesis of the book is good though and the detours tend to be the ideas that are tangential to the overall idea. Nick Offerman narrating was a pleasant surprise that I didn't expect until I started listening, so that was cool.

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4 stars

A great critique of modern farming, and of modernity's capitalist-totalitarian destruction of human complexity in relation to the earth and to one another: errors of specialization, isolation, and mechanization compounded by loss of culture and values. Echoes of Buckminster Fuller, overlap with Alasdair MacIntyre; Berry writes clearly and angrily with love.

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