The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0820329754
- ISBN-13
- 9780820329758
- Series
- The Simple Life
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- David E. Shi
Description
Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.
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