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Author:

Gilbert, Jess Carr, author.

Title:

Planning democracy : agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal / Jess Gilbert ; foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xx, 341 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Land use--History--United States--History--20th century.
Land reform--United States--History--20th century.
Social scientists--History--United States--History--20th century.
Farmers--History--United States--History--20th century.
Social reformers--United States--History--20th century.
Democratization--United States--History--20th century.
Social change--United States--History--20th century.
History.

Other Authors:

Kirkendall, Richard Stewart, 1928- author of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti-New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era's agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Agrarian studies series.

ISBN:

030020731X
9780300207316

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894310423

LCCN:

2014033414

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)