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Henry and The Great Society
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Henry and The Great Society
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Imagine a world where families lived simply and deliberately. Where everything needed for life could be found right at home. Imagine neighbors working together and looking out for each other, generation after generation, for as far back as you could remember. And for many hundreds of years before that. Then imagine you saw it all slipping away.
In 1969, Herbert Roush saw his world slipping away. And he set out to tell the story.
Testimonials
“What have we given up in pursuit of progress? What generational losses have we incurred, yet never fully grappled with? How does our society’s insistence on careering blindly down a road called Progress (one quite different from that of the Pilgrim) affect our relationships, our health, our very souls? Henry and the Great Society attempts to do the accounting, and the debits seem to far outweigh the credits.”
Holly Hickman, HollyHickman.com
“Henry and the Great Society is one of those rare books that combines deceptively light prose with powerful moral and practical lessons. For our time, the key lesson is that the defense of a vigorous family economy and a productive homestead requires constant vigilance and sometimes hard choices that run counter to ‘accepted wisdoms.’ The book so bears a true prophetic quality.”
Allan Carlson, The Natural Family Where It Belongs
“Something’s not right. We all can sense it. Modernity, for all its creature comforts, fails to deliver the true meaning and purpose we all seek. But the assumption and appearance of material progress lulls us to sleep with shiny things, eternal busy-ness, and unending entertainment. This book is a wake-up call that progress isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And confronting that reality in story form like this hits you in the gut more powerfully than all the data, statistics, and logical arguments ever could.”
Joshua Pauling, Are We All Cyborgs Now?
“The setting may be in a time gone by, and we may not share the generational legacy that Henry received, but we all find ourselves in his shoes, watching our world change, drawing us further from the original destiny we were intended to inherit. Can we reverse course? That is for you to decide, for as the author explains, it is not a matter of ‘can’ but of ‘will.’”
Josh Thomas, founder of School of Traditional Skills
“This book has profoundly challenged my definition of success. Ancient longings and quiet grief are stirred in me every time I return to its pages. Henry and the Great Society provides a potentially life-saving jolt needed to awaken us from the deadly stupor of consumerism.”
Noah Sanders, author of Born-Again Dirt
Growing up in an Amish community, this little book is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at how progress and technology change lives an inch at a time, often without our realizing. If you wonder about where we might be headed, I have no doubt you will enjoy Henry’s story.
Marlin Miller, Plain Values Magazine
About the Author
Herbert L. Roush, Sr. (1925-2001) was an historian, traveling minister, and author of several books. A child of the Great Depression, Roush grew up in farming country in West Virginia and became a minister at age twenty-three, traveling to churches on horseback throughout Appalachia. He was known for sharing the gospel in a way that penetrated the heart, and not just the intellect. His plainspoken manifesto Jesus Loves Me became a national bestseller. As he has written elsewhere: “I write with no higher hopes than to motivate the rooster at daybreak—I do not expect to be appreciated or even tolerated, but I hope to awaken some to a new day.” Decades after his passing, his writings are still read around the world and inspiring many to a new day.
