Joe Wittmer Books  ©2009

Gentle  People:
An Inside View Of Amish Life

by

Joe Wittmer, Ph.D.

 

 

(2007 Edition, 208 pages)

Autographed copy is $12.95 (includes shipping and handling in the US)

 

Dr. Joe Wittmer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Counseling at The University of Florida, Gainesville, was born and raised Old Order Amish. Although he is no longer Amish, the other dozens of youth and adult contributors to the book are current participants of the Amish faith. The 200,000 plus Old Order, horse and buggy Amish Americans have been largely overlooked by historians and social scientists. Authors who have written about the Amish generally view them as people of great integrity and goodwill, but have often exploited their uniqueness and picturesqueness. Dr. Wittmer writes with authority about their genuine values, ways, customs and problems with America's zest for progress. The book covers such topics as: The Amish Family System, Child Rearing, Their Plan of Education, Courtship, Marriage and Death, along with many other aspects of the horse and buggy Amish culture. People of all ages will enjoy reading about this austere, peace-loving sect.

 

Dr. Wittmer writes that it is difficult to measure the total effect that America's progress has on the Amish who are committed to a primitive technology in the mist of a modern world bent on secularization. However, the gentle Amish are a tenacious people and are intent on maintaining their way of life.

 

For your personally autographed copy of the Gentle People: An Inside View of Amish Life, please contact the author at wittmerbooks@bellsouth.net . The cost of the autographed copy is $12.95 (includes shipping and handling in the US). The book is also a great gift idea for a friend and can be personally autographed as follows: (recipient's name) I hope you enjoy my book---a gift to you from (giver's name) and signed and dated by the author.