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Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer

(Larger Image)	Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes Product Group: Book Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1989-10-15) ISBN: 0671636472 EAN: 9780671636470 Binding/Media: Hardcover - 320 pages Edition: First Edition SKU: 575853 Condition: New Comments: A WONDERFUL HARDBACK BOOK! 1ST EDITION, 1989. EARLY PRINT. HARDBACK BOOK, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE IN MINT CONDITION. SHIPS RAPIDLY. GREAT PACKAGING. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.
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Product Description From the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes a stirring portrait of an American Family--a compelling human story that takes us behind the headlines and into the real world of farming today.
Amazon.com Review Farm lyrically recounts a year in the lives of Tom and Sally Bauer, solid Midwesterners who work the bottomlands of the Missouri River to grow "a harvest few city people could have identified ... the foundation of their diet, the principal food plant of the Western world": corn. The two rise before dawn in all kinds of weather, tending to the hundreds of tasks farmers must master in the face of heavy odds--foreclosures, climbing interest rates, a then-sickening economy, and, always, the uncertainties of the weather and the health of their crops. Richard Rhodes makes it clear that their lives are hard, but the Bauers love to till the soil. Doubtless few urbanites will want to don bib overalls after reading Farm, but anyone who reads the book will appreciate the difficulty of farmers' lives and the courage of those who lead them.

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