This book touches on many of the same subjects as that book, viewing a world that could very well be a reality for America in this fictional rendition of a story where catastrophes overlapping each other end up resulting in a total shift in culture and everyday life for many.Īll of the electricity went out, and now the time where people just zipped around in automobiles to get to where they need to go has ended. The author delved into the concept of how a decline in oil being produced and climate change could end up changing the face of society and an end to its industrial nature. World Made by Hand is the first book in the series by the same name. It would be followed by The Witch of Hebron as well as the third novel A History of the Future and the fourth novel, The Harrows of Spring. The series of novels first began in 2008 when the first book in the series by the same title came out. James Howard Kunstler is the creator and author of the World Made by Hand series. He has also written the 2005 book The Long Emergency, a nonfiction work where Kunstler posits that the declining production of oil could lead to a death of the industrialized version of society as we know it and end up leading to American citizens to reside in local communities that are agrarian in nature.
He is also featured in The End of Suburbia, a documentary on peak oil that has been viewed many times online.
He is known for writing a history on urban development and suburbia in America with the book The Geography of Nowhere. He would leave the position so that he could go write full time in 1975. He also was on staff as a writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. James attended the State University of New York and studied at Brockport Campus, graduating with his degree and finding work as a reporter and writing features for different newspapers. He would leave to go back to the city three years later with his family, and much of the author’s childhood was spent there. He has appeared as himself in several documentaries.īorn in 1948 in New York City, James moved to the suburbs of Long Island in 1954. He is also the writer of the television show American Heroes & Legends. James Howard Kunstler is an American published author of fiction as well as a blogger and social critic.
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