Lone Tree

by Bruce Brown

Book Overview

Combining the journalistic approaches of Friendly Fire and In Cold Blood, an award-winning journalist focuses on the pivotal 1985 triple murder/suicide in Lone Tree, Iowa, as a means of exploring the social, political, economic, and human roots of the American farming crisis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517569876
• ISBN13: 9780517569870
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A chilling story and a metaphor

"Lone Tree" is an account of a killing rampage by a one-time prosperous Iowa farmer and a metaphor about the killing of the American farmer during the 1980's. Author Bruce Brown does a great job of examining the psychology of prosperity, the cause and consequences of Federal Farm policies, and the forces that propelled Dale Barr to kill his neighbor, wife, and banker. As we see and smell corporate hog confinements dotting our landscape and witness the continued fall of farm incomes, the conditions for a reenactment of the tragedy of Lone Tree exist. Not a fun book, but a good one.