Lost Land: E. W. Mueller's Vision for the Development of the Regional Community

The time is the closing decades of the twentieth century. The place is America where less than 2% of the soil is in the hands of the independent family farmer who was once the backbone of the nation. The dilemma is social decay -- poverty, crumbling infrastructure & hopelessness. Against this array of seemingly insurmountable problems stood the late E. W. MUELLER, a man who encouraged people to take back control of their lives. He saw the rural community as a series of interdependent institutions -- schools, farms, banks, churches, business & local government. He believed that people can work together for the common good, rediscovering the personal responsibility for their futures that they once entrusted to impersonal state & federal governments. In THE LOST LAND, his collected writings outline a practical blueprint to revitalize community life whether urban or rural while stressing the ecological balance of humans & nature. Frederick K. Wentz noted that "in THE LOST LAND, we see Mueller's strong vision of the way people can escape from dependence on national bureaucracies to solve their problems & return to local decision making." Published by The Tyrone Press, 348 Hartford Tpk., Hampton, CT 06247. (800) 418-9972. Distributed by BAKER & TAYLOR & UNIQUE BOOKS.Waldkoenig, Gilson A. is the author of 'Lost Land: E. W. Mueller's Vision for the Development of the Regional Community' with ISBN 9781884723025 and ISBN 1884723020.