A Band of Prophets: The Vanderbilt Agrarians After Fifty Years

This book is based on the proceedings of a conference held at Vanderbilt University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1930 manifesto, I`ll Take My Stand. It brings together essays by six authors who, like their predecessors, share certain convications about the value of the agrarian society as opposed to the kind of industrial life that is often misguidedly called `the American way.` These essays are followed by the text of a panel discussion held among the three surviving Vanderbilt Lyle Lanier, Andrew Lytle, and Robert Penn Warren, with Cleanth Brooks presiding. The authors of the six essays are Charles P. Roland; John Shelton Reed; Lewis P. Simpson; Robert B. Heilman; George Core; and Louis D. Rubin Jr.