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“We are unlikely ever to have a superior account of the effort to square democratic participation with technical expertise. Gilbert's searching history of the ‘agrarian intellectuals’ in Roosevelt's New Deal administration—wh
Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti–New Dealers killed the successful program t...
You easily download any file type for your device.Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) | Jess Gilbert. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
