FURY IN THE FIELDS
Schwab, Jim
Fury in the Fields RAISING LESS CORN AND MORE HELL: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out by Jim Schwab University of Illinois Press. 301 pp. $24.95. Conventional wisdom has it that farmers are...
...I see nothing but very hard days ahead for farmers unless there is an uprising in this country the likes of which we haven't seen for years...
...Battered by senseless Government policies, victimized by bankers and agribusiness conglomerates, many farmers are taking a hard look at much they've previously taken for granted...
...Not the Mid-.western farmers Jim Schwab interviewed for Raising Less Corn and More Hell...
...We didn't solve it before, and we are not going to solve it now...
...I think farmers and other people have to come to the realization that, until and if we can turn this Government around, it is not going to be solved...
...Conventional wisdom has it that farmers are rock-ribbed conservatives, stalwart defenders of the status quo...
...Jim Schwab, who has written for The Progressive and other publications, has tuned in to their fury and frustration, but also to a new sense of political awareness in farm country...
...Listen to Merle Hansen of Newman Grove, Nebraska, who heads the North American Farm Alliance: "We are not going to solve the farm problem in isolation from other social-justice issues...
Vol. 53 • April 1989 • No. 4
