What Are People For?: Essays

In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry, whom The Christian Science Monitor called "the "prophetic American voice of our day," conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer

Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, this collection of essays finds Wendell Berry gracefully navigating from one topic to the next. Berry speaks candidly about the ills...