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Unforgiven: Charles Walters: 9780911311679: Amazon.com: Books
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Unforgiven: Charles Walters: 9780911311679: Amazon.com: Books
Book Description
Publication Date: July 1, 2002
 Revised and updated second edition. Charles Walters recognized the
national and international implications of applied raw material economics
as revealed in the analyses of the U.S. economy by Carl H. Wilken, Charles
B. Ray, John Lee Coulter and J. Carson Adkerson. They demonstrated how all
new wealth enters an economy as raw materials provided by Nature. By fairly
monetizing these raw materials, an economy is diverse, balanced, and free
of debt.

*Unforgiven* is derived from Walters' research and in-depth interviews with
Wilken, conducted shortly before Wilken's death in 1968. The crisis that
this book addresses has become even more pronounced in the years since it
first appeared — an increasing wealth gap, a crumbling internal economy,
human and economic harm inflicted upon our trading partners, millions of
family farmers driven from their land, and small, privately owned
businesses becoming extinct, ultimately leaving millions of Americans
either directly or indirectly dependent on government handouts for
existence. Wilken feared the concentration of power "in a few strong hands"
as the deadliest enemy of a free society and saw the demise of independent
enterprise and the family farm as the final curtain for the most dramatic
social experiment in history: the American Dream.

Walters presents not only the causes and effects of our continuing rural
and urban decay, but also a way to stop it — the construction of an economy
operating in tune with the laws of physics.

About the Author
The son of a poor Kansas farmer, Walters' childhood was marked first by the
Dust Bowl, then by the Great Depression. He came of age doing military
service in the waning days of World War II, and earned a master's degree in
economics on the G.I. Bill. He gained experience as editor for the National
Farmer's Organization (NFO), a group dedicated to the idea of using
collective bargaining to obtain a better deal for the family farmer. In
1970 he began his own monthly publication *Acres U.S.A,* as a voice for
eco-agriculture. In his spare time he authored thousands of articles and
numerous books on the technologies of eco-agriculture.

A tireless traveler, Walters journeyed to Egypt, Cuba, Australia, and
Brazil (among others), always returning with long, insightful articles
about the rural culture and agricultural practices he found and the people
he met.

Now semi-retired in Kansas City, Missouri, Charles Walters still
contributes articles and essays to the journal he founded, which his son
Fred Walters now runs out of Austin, Texas.
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Product Details

   - *Paperback:* 413 pages
   - *Publisher:* Acres USA; 2 Revised edition (July 1, 2002)
   - *Language:* English
   - *ISBN-10:* 091131167X
   - *ISBN-13:* 978-0911311679
   - * Product Dimensions: * 8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
   - *Shipping Weight:* 1.2 pounds
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