Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years

by Allen J. Matusow

Book Overview

In this thorough and lively study, Allen Matusow, tracing the history of government policy on food and agriculture during the Truman administration, relates the process by which the United States government overcame disharmony among its own politicians and farmers to save Europe from famine in the years immediately following World War II.
The Department of Agriculture, which had asserted that "food will win the war and write the peace," was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674295005
• ISBN13: 9780674295001
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"