Launched in 2014, Front Porch Republic Books publishes works about place, localism, community, decentralism, and conservation. Titles include significant works on politics, economics, and culture, as well as new editions of previously published works that deserve a new audience. Other titles provide practical advice on how to enact and embody a localist ethic. FPR Books’ managing editor is Jason Peters, and its editorial advisory board includes such prominent public figures as Andrew Bacevich, Rod Dreher, Richard Gamble, and Walter McDougall.
Among FPR Books’ inaugural titles are Poetry Night at the Ballpark, and Other Scenes from an Alternative America, by Bill Kauffman; America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928, edited by Jeremy Beer; and The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession, by David Bosworth.
Brian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown...
The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class
by Mark T. Mitchell
$25.00
£22.00
AU$39.00
ISBN: 9781666736588
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Front Porch Republic Books
A proletarianized citizenry ruled by a class of insolent plutocrats is incompatible with the republican form of government established by the US Constitution. Without an effective majority of citizens...
When Surveyor-General Thomas Hutchins drove a stake into the ground to mark a "point of beginning" for the 1785 establishment of Seven Ranges of townships on the west bank of the Ohio River, he had...
Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time
by Rory Groves
Foreword by Allan C. Carlson
$27.00
£24.00
AU$34.00
ISBN: 9781725274143
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Front Porch Republic Books
With over thirty thousand occupations currently in existence, workers today face a bewildering array of careers from which to choose, and upon which to center their lives. But there is more at stake...
Some of the most interesting and genuinely commendable people in the world are systematically overlooked by our celebrity-obsessed media. This book is a reminder of just what a mistake that is--here...
(Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand
by Jason Peters
$31.00
£27.00
AU$43.00
ISBN: 9781532689802
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Front Porch Republic Books
More than a collection of vignettes and stories from garden, grill, and kitchen, The Culinary Plagiarist is a sustained adventure in gustatory delight, an intensely private but candid account of desire...
In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the...
Wendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. It's somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider...
Although the financial disaster of 2008 proved devastatingly quick, the evolution of the bad faith that drove the collapse is a more gradual story, and one that David Bosworth powerfully narrates in...
Bill Kauffman has carved out an idiosyncratic identity quite unlike any other American writer. Praised by the likes of Gore Vidal, Benjamin Schwarz, and George McGovern, he has, with a distinctive and...
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