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I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) Paperback – January 1, 1978

by Twelve Southerners (Author), Jr. Rubin, Louis D. (Introduction)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
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  1. Print length
    410 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Louisiana State Univ Pr
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1978
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0807103578
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0807103579
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Louisiana State Univ Pr; 2nd edition (January 1, 1978)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 410 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807103578
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807103579
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

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Patrick Barrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Reveals the thinking - as far as I've read - of educated Southern White men of that era
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2023
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The era is the 50s as the Civil Rights Movement was just starting in the South. The only essay I've read so far - by Robert Penn Warren because he's the only name I recognized - starts off sounding like someone estranged from Blacks as people and dubious of their capacity to participate fully in society. Then there is a shift and he does seem to recognize the power of change along with the normal, human qualities of Black people, and then suddenly shifts back to silly stereotypes of Blacks. He ends up being in favor of Blacks and Whites remaining on the farm where each can exist in a grudging appreciation and far from the "quality folk" like Warren. And that is why these true Conservatives are called "Southern Agrarians."
CORRECTION: the essays were written in the 30s, then reprinted in the 60s and the introduction was written 15 years after that.
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J
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all Southerners
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2011
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For me, this is one of the most amazing books/collection of essays that could exist. I had one Grandfather who was an un-reconstructed Southerner. He cotton farmed his whole life and never bought a tractor, even in the 60's when every other southern man seemed to have been converted. He did not buy into anything new, modern or industrialized. Everyone called him backwards, but he stuck to what he knew was a calm, peaceful, enjoyable, rewarding Agrarian existence.
I see a number of reviews from people who can't relate to this collection of essays. If you read this and can't relate, you have already been converted
100% to such a progressive (Industrial) Yankee/Americanized lifestyle, that you may never have any hope of knowing what life could be like when truly lived.
With such ease of access to satellite, internet, cable and industrialized music, most Southerners have been converted. Today most do
not have a Grandfather they can relate to. They don't stand a chance at rebelling against so called progress. It will continue like a disease,
destroying generation after generation of Southerners and other Agrarian areas.
Though I was raised in the dirt in deep south, I fell victim to the ignorance of American popular culture. I was easily converted as a teenager and only recently after reading this collection was brought home. Everything clicked only because I could relate to my Grandfather. I never really thought about it until now. I knew he was different, but it was just a passing thought. Now I realize he was right and everyone else was and still is wrong.
For any Southerner reading this review, I ask you to please read and study these works. The fight must be carried on to the next generation.
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Albion
4.0 out of 5 stars Falling Just Short Isn't Good Enough
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2004
One must keep in mind the time period of the book, which was the Great Depression. One must also remember that any kind of pervasive, endemic change on the scale of industrialism is bound to provoke a reaction. The stellar aspect of this book is the exhibition of a high order, intellectual critique of Modernism of a kind not usually originating from the South. Another stellar aspect of this book is the multitude of angles the attack is delivered from (historical, philosophical, religious, artistic). The one thing they all have in common is an astounding degree of rhetorical sophistication - these agrarians knew their adversary and were relentless in scourging it. For this, we owe them great thanks. That having been said, I doubt the Southern Agrarians could have ever conceived of man terraforming Mars, mining one of Jupiter's moons, or any of the things that we take for granted as inevitability. I never wish to be thought a better conservative than Edmund Burke, and he once remarked that when history has spoken, an opposing virtue may become not only immoral but perverse. It would seem that the record of history is against the agrarians. If man is to have the room and the land and the freedom they sought, it will have to be on the other side of the industrial Modernism they so hated and feared. Perhaps upon a green Mars, newly primed and ready for settlement?....
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Art Chance
5.0 out of 5 stars Southern Schizophrenia
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2003
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As an expatriate Southerner, I admit that much of this work makes me a bit dewey-eyed, especially "Cousin Lucius." That said, the whole idea of the book is a foolishly romantic view of a mythical Southern Past. Every reasonably literate Southerner is familiar with Faulkner's line that "the past isn't dead, it isn't even past." I reject that. Southerners do not live with their past, they live with, one might say in, a mythically remembered past. The antebellum South was much more like Olmstead's critical descriptions than the happy place described by the slave-holding oligarchs. 300,000 mostly poor men died in the rich men's attempt to preserve their pretenses. In the aftermath, both the white and black poor of the South were sentenced to peonage for a century while the scions of the pre-war big men feasted on Yankee table scraps. That is the truth. The Agrarians describe a society they wanted to see because Southerners just couldn't bring themselves to see the ruin of poverty, ignorance, and xenophobia that surrounded them. Atlanta may indeed represent what a quarter million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. But there really wasn't an Atlanta as romantic Southerners want to remember it.
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Harlan
5.0 out of 5 stars with Rubin's introduction
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2012
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I ordered the edition with Louis Rubin's introduction, which provides context for the essays in the book. Regarding the essays, some are very good and enlightening, while a few are obtuse. That is to be expected, as the authors address a variety of themes but I would recommend reading through them, as I did, for example, with Allen Tate's thoughts on religion, which were hard to follow in places but full of keen insights. In particular, I liked John Crowe Ransom's discussion of the ideology of Progress, which I think explains a lot of the inconsistencies and blunders of today's progressives. I have a business background and graduated some decades ago, so for a while I haven't used some of the thought processes necessary to follow some parts of these essays. In my opinion, however, the book is useful for students of Southern history and culture as well as for anyone interested in reading a humane response to societal questions.
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