About The Book:

A Luddite, a radical, a romantic, an atheist, and ardent freethinker, you could not simply agree with Perry Mann. He wouldn’t want you to. He would suspect the freedom of your own thinking were you to agree too easily with his. And that is the reason to read Chris Chanlett’s new publication, Renaissance Mann. Reading agreeable authors reinforces what you think you already know, while reading a true freethinker opens a world you may never have known existed.

Raised on a subsistence farm in West Virginia, Mann is no fan of the modern world, nor of urbanization in general. Nature is his source of truth and inspiration. When a groundhog raids his broccoli patch, he sides with the groundhog. “Man…” before the modern world… “lived pretty much as a groundhog does … he lived from the garden nature provided.” Urban man, alienated from his true nature, lives like “a groundhog on astroturf.”

Mann’s most penetrating thoughts are on the subject of religion. He has no patience for the conformity of religious institutions or the hypocrisy of moral belief and immoral action. He calls himself a pagan, yet his highest esteem is for people like Martin Luther King Jr., “… a man who talked like Christ and lived like Christ.” If you would like to look at the world we all live in through eyes not your own, have a seat, pick up this book, and – as Mr. Chanlett did many times – have a conversation with Perry Mann. Thought will flow both ways.