Broken Heartland by Osha Gray Davidson

Broken Heartland by Osha Gray Davidson

Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the decline of the Heartland and its transformation into a bitterly divided and isolated regional ghetto. Through interviews with more than two hundred farmers, social workers, government officials, and scholars, he puts a human face on the farm crisis of the 1980s. In this expanded edition, Davidson emphasizes the tenacious power of far-right-wing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first in-depth look - six years before the Oklahoma City bombing - at the politics of hate they nurture. He also spotlights NAFTA, hog lots, sustainable agriculture, and the other battles and changes over the past six years in rural America.

Davidson, Osha Gray: -

Osha Gray Davidson is a freelance writer, photographer, and author of several books of nonfiction, including The Best of Enemies, Clean Break, and Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control, among others. He is a contributing editor of Earthzine.org and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Discover, Washington Spectator, New York Times, Mother Jones, Popular Science, Slate, and the Washington Post. He co-wrote the screenplay for the award-winning IMAX documentary, Coral Reef Adventure. His book, The Best of Enemies, is the basis for a major motion picture.

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Titel	Broken Heartland
Autor	Osha Gray Davidson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Iowa Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-09-30
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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