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Language: English
Published by Univ Pr of New England, 1992
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- Title
- After the Fire: The Destruction of the Lancaster County Amish
- Author
- Randy-Michael Testa
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of New England
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0874515874
- ISBN 13
- 9780874515879
- Illustrator
- Susie Riehl
- Item weight
- 1.15 pounds
Argues that because of accelerated development, population increases, and the constant attention of tourists the Amish people are being forced to move out of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Review
New York Times Book Review"
Philadelphia Inquirer"
A call to reflection and action...The Amish way of life, as Mr. Testa emphasizes, is not historical curiosity but a vibrant, if endangered, present reality...A compelling [vision] of widespread spiritual famine in a land of material glut. New York Times Book Review"
At once a portrait of lives as they are lived and an account of the ongoing struggle of a community to survive the grinding machinery of technological and economic change. Philadelphia Inquirer"
An affecting mourning for the impending destruction of the Amish community, both for its own sake and for that of our larger society for whom the Amish, Testa convinces us, can serve as a valuable example. Kirkus Reviews"
"A call to reflection and action...The Amish way of life, as Mr. Testa emphasizes, is not historical curiosity but a vibrant, if endangered, present reality...A compelling [vision] of widespread spiritual famine in a land of material glut."-- "New York Times Book Review"
"At once a portrait of lives as they are lived and an account of the ongoing struggle of a community to survive the grinding machinery of technological and economic change."-- "Philadelphia Inquirer"
"An affecting mourning for the impending destruction of the Amish community, both for its own sake and for that of our larger society--for whom the Amish, Testa convinces us, can serve as a valuable example."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Philadelphia Inquirer"
A call to reflection and action...The Amish way of life, as Mr. Testa emphasizes, is not historical curiosity but a vibrant, if endangered, present reality...A compelling [vision] of widespread spiritual famine in a land of material glut. New York Times Book Review"
At once a portrait of lives as they are lived and an account of the ongoing struggle of a community to survive the grinding machinery of technological and economic change. Philadelphia Inquirer"
An affecting mourning for the impending destruction of the Amish community, both for its own sake and for that of our larger society for whom the Amish, Testa convinces us, can serve as a valuable example. Kirkus Reviews"
"A call to reflection and action...The Amish way of life, as Mr. Testa emphasizes, is not historical curiosity but a vibrant, if endangered, present reality...A compelling [vision] of widespread spiritual famine in a land of material glut."-- "New York Times Book Review"
"At once a portrait of lives as they are lived and an account of the ongoing struggle of a community to survive the grinding machinery of technological and economic change."-- "Philadelphia Inquirer"
"An affecting mourning for the impending destruction of the Amish community, both for its own sake and for that of our larger society--for whom the Amish, Testa convinces us, can serve as a valuable example."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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