/tags/book-review/ Recent content in Book Review on Rootstalk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:53:42 +0000 /past-issues/volume-v-issue-1/building-the-agricultural-city/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 15:53:42 +0000 /past-issues/volume-v-issue-1/building-the-agricultural-city/ When men are merely submerged in a mass of impersonal human beings pushed around by automatic forces, they lose their true humanity, their integrity, their ability to love, their capacity for self-determination. —Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude Merton’s powerful epigraph serves as a compelling opening salvo, one that Robert Wolf himself sounds with this creative and timely book, Building the Agricultural City: A Handbook for Rural Renewal.