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| Citizens Dissent (Security, Morality,and Leadership in an age of terror) | 
| Author: Wendell; Duncan, David James Berry
Publisher: The Orion Society
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1099702
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0913098620
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9780913098622
ASIN: 0913098620
Publication Date: 2003
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Book Description
Wendell Berry and David James Duncan, in two original essays first published in Orion Magazine, present a haunting call to the collective conscience of the citizenry, and an urgent challenge to the meaning and workings of a true democracy. Their patriotic dissents expand the context for questions of terror and security, and present an enlightened understanding of the threats to - and responsibilities of - freedom. The volume also features an original postscript by Duncan, dated the first day that U.S. forces invaded Iraq.
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 Another Stunning Book in the Orion Series after 9/11 November 27, 2007
I was most moved by David James Duncan's essay in this book although I am always a fan of Wendell Berry's wisdom. The grief and outrage in Duncan's words were palpable. He is a fiction writer who makes up characters and places them in worlds that make sense. The real world today does not make sense and is filled with fictions that are really lies. His essay begins before the war in Iraq begins and there is a postscript written in April of 2003. Here is an excerpt of that postscript.
"Yet on February 15th of this year, hundreds of millions of people demonstrated against this war in 600 cities worldwide.......Six hundred cities. Hundreds of nations. Hundreds of millions of people. Yet these marchers earned from George W. Bush the smirking remark, 'I don't listen to focus groups.'....
The DU (depleted uranium) to which our sons and daughters and all Iraq and Afghanistan is being exposed is murderous, though our palantir (Tolkien-Lord of the Rings) refuses to deem it so. And the greatest peace march in world history was not a 'focus group,' though our palantir showed the president deeming it so. Even despite television, an enormous global movement has been born out of love for the Earth and all life, and loathing for the empowered few's continued abuses against Earth and life. February 11, 2003 let us witness this. I refuse to let the palantir erase it."
A Brave, Independent Voice September 29, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wendell Berry is one of those rare, brave voices speaking today, one who enrages both Democrats and Republicans because he doesn't cheerlead for either of them or tow their party lines. He does regard himself as conservative, however, in the true, traditional American sense of the term-- not in the current "Neo-Conservative"/imperialist abuse of the term. Socialist-leaning Democrats and Imperialist-leaning Republicans need to read him, and this book.
 Unadulterated Nonsense April 28, 2005
3 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is some of the worst thinking and most intellectually dishonest work I have read in a long time, and I mean both Berry and Duncan. I am dumbfounded that anyone could like this. Berry starts with a premise of hating George W. Bush, makes up any facts he likes to slam him, and proceeds from there. Someone I know said they liked him so I bought this just to get an example of his thinking.
He starts out saying that because the US policy has changed to one of "we" may start a pre-emptive war, alone if necessary, that means Bush as head of state is going to secretly act alone. We, he says, means the head of state. No it doesn't, that is a wild assumption, it means the US Government, he also states that we have never acted preemptively before--ever heard of the attack on Germany in WWII? Germany had not attacked us, Japan did. Or the Bay of Pigs, a SECRET preemptive operation against Castro? We fight preemptive actions all the time and have for years. And he is wrong to say no one would know about it, right now there is a possibility that we may attack Iran over the nuclear threat there, and no one would be totally suprised by that.
His discussion of what terror is comes down to it being the same for anyone who uses nuclear and biological weapons, and therefore aren't we just the same as the terrorists? I felt like I was reading something from a sixth grader.
There is more, and so far I am only talking about THE FIRST THREE PAGES!
All I can say is if you hate Bush and are willing to stretch any assumption to an absurd and unfounded degree to salivate over that hatred, this book is for you.
Wendell Berry Hits a Home Run! August 6, 2003
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is the book that includes Berry's famous New York Times statement, "A Citizen's Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America," that has quickly become one of the most important pieces of expository writing in American civil discourse. The Orion Society, which printed the statement in the NYT and has also published Berry's powerful In The Presence of Fear in book form, is to be congratulated for making this essay available so quickly in book form. The companion essay by David James Duncan is extraordinary in its own right. Uncompromising, passionate, and altogether wise!
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