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Willard Cochrane and the American family farm
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Willard Cochrane and the American family farm

Author: Richard A Levins
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000.
Series: Our sustainable future, v. 14.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Willard Cochrane watched the dramatic decline in American family farming from a vantage point few can claim. He was born in the autumn of Jeffersonian idealism and saw it in action on his grandparents' farm in Iowa. He became one of the country's premier agricultural economists and carried the standard of liberalism for President Kennedy in the last serious fight to save the family farm. Then, for forty long years,
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Levins, Richard A.
Willard Cochrane and the American family farm.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000
(OCoLC)652080059
Named Person: Willard Wesley Cochrane
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard A Levins
ISBN: 0803229356 9780803229358
OCLC Number: 42680508
Description: 88 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1 Family Farms in Form but Not in Spirit 1 --
2 Golden Age 13 --
3 Treadmill 26 --
4 Professor Cochrane Goes to Washington 44 --
5 An Unreconstructed Liberal 62 --
6 Heartland 79 --
Selected Writings of Willard Cochrane, 1939-1997 85.
Series Title: Our sustainable future, v. 14.
Responsibility: Richard A. Levins.
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Talks about the spirit of family farming: Thomas Jefferson's dream of an agrarian democracy. What should we do in the face of globalization, high technology, and corporate control of our food supply?  Read more...

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