Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s

The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color TV. The embattled farmers, accompanied by their advocates, stood holding off bankers and sheriffs wielding foreclosure notices. In this new book, using findings from interviews and participant observation, agricultural historian Mark Friedberger peels away the emotion and rhetoric of the ""save the family farm"" movement to provide a realistic picture of what happened in on importa

Author: Mark Friedberger
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780813156231

About the Author

Mark Friedberger is a writer and researcher on agricultural topics. He is the author of Farm Families and Change in 20th-Century America.

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