From New Day to New Deal: American Farm Policy from Hoover to Roosevelt, 1928-1933

by David E. Hamilton

Overview

Hamilton examines the "farm problem" of the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on how the Hoover administration and the early New Deal responded to the farm crisis of the Great Depression and to the debate over a long-range farm policy. He argues that Hoover's farm plan failed because of the inherent flaws and limitations of Hoover's associational prescriptions and his simplistic conceptions about agriculture.

Originally published 1991.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807865422
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	04/01/2011
Edition description:	1
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

Editorial Reviews

Hamilton (history, U. of Kentucky) argues that the farm policies of both Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1920's and 1930's were attempting to create cooperative self-governing and planning institutions for agriculture, that Hoover's was defeated by the depression and his own simplistic misconceptions, and that Roosevelt's came closer, but still failed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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