Disputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program

by Jean Choate

Farmers suffering the effects of drought and depression in the 1930s were looking for relief from what they felt were unfair prices for their crops, and reform of the entire agricultural and economic system of which they were the primary part. In the election campaign of 1932, they heard Franklin D. Roosevelt promise that if elected he would work for a program to help them. The vagueness of the president-to-be led a variety of farm groups to believe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786411848
• ISBN13: 9780786411849
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher