Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s

by Mark Friedberger

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813156238
• ISBN13: 9780813156231
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher