I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of essays by Twelve Southerners who write of the South's agrarian tradition and its temptation to abandon it for the rootless money-grubbing way of the industrial north. Their prophecy that the South would join the mindless, generic and robotic industrial culture of the north unless she defended her roots in the soil has nearly come true. This book serves as a great treatise on what the South was really fighting to preserve in the War Between the States; her agrarian culture. It is a must for those wanting a look at the true Southern Culture-not that of Hollywood or her enemies in the north.