WHO OWNS
AMERICA?
A New Declaration of Independence
Edited by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate
With a new Introduction by Edward S. Shapiro
List Item No. 277
ISBN: 882926-37-4 (cloth)
496 pages (includes new Index, Bibliography)
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This volume is the classic sequel to I'll Take My Stand, the famous defense of the South's agrarian traditions. But whereas I'll
Take My Stand was theoretical and sectional, Who Owns America? aimed to be concrete and national, and it succeeds. The book evokes
and defends in realist, programmatic terms, an America characterized by small-property ownership and responsible stewardship.
What They're Saying...
"This powerful combination of the best Southern Agrarian social critics with some of the brightest lights of English-speaking Catholic localists—known popularly as Distributists, and including in this new volume Douglas Jerrold and Hilaire Belloc—resulted in virtually a new school of thought…. The republication of Who Owns America? is therefore an event of great importance."
—University Bookman
"Who Owns America? is one of the forgotten classics of American Political protest.
Its power to provoke is undiminished, for Who Owns America? is a book inspired by an ideal.
Its neo-Jeffersonian vision of a decentralized America, a land of small property ownership and an independent citizenry,
continues to shape conservative discourse on the nature of the good society.
Now back in print, with an incisive Foreword by Edward Shapiro,
this spirited volume invites a fresh and careful reading."
— George H. Nash, author, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
"The urgency of the questions posed by Who Owns America? has not changed since 1936, nor has the answer. The political events of the last two decades have demonstrated the relationship between political freedom and prosperity on the one hand and the widespread distribution of property and economic and political decentralization on the other…. Critics during the 1930s derided the contributors to Who Owns America? as romantics, visionaries, and utopians. In fact, the collectivists, with their faith for a better world through industrial giantism and economic and political planning, were the true utopians."
— Edward S. Shapiro, from the Introduction
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Contributors Include:
- Cleanth Brooks
- David Cushman Coyle
- Donald Davidson
- Lyle H. Lanier
- Andrew Lytle
- Hilaire Belloc
- John Crowe Ransom
- Richard Ransom
- John C. Rawe
- James Muir Waller
- Robert Penn Warren
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