Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781510779983
Format: Trade binding
Year: 2024
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.


Description:
2025 Farm Foundation Book of the Year Award Winner


C-SPAN Author Series Most Important Book of 2024




The hidden history of an economic and cultural crisis that is threatening our very food supply-the disappearance of the American farmer. Critically acclaimed with praise from across the political spectrum, Land Rich, Cash Poor reveals the urgent, unflinching truth.



"An anthem to the family farm in America." - AP News



"A beautiful book. You won't want to put it down." - Peter Slevin, contributing writer for The New Yorker



"Well worth reading for those who care about what we eat and where it comes from." - Mike Gousha, Emmy-award-winning journalist and PBS documentarian




Taking on this working-class story of heart and hardship, award-winning writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger weaves forgotten eras of American history with his own family's four-generation fight for survival in Midwestern farm country. Readers learn the truth about America's most detrimental andunexplained socioeconomic crisis: How the family farms that feed us went from cutting a middle-class path through the Great Depressionto barely making ends meet in modern America. Along the way, they'll see what it truly takes to feed our country:accidents that can kill or maim;weather that blesses or threatens;resilience in the face of crushing economic crises,from depressions and recessions to COVID-19;and the tradition that presses down on each generation when you're not just fighting for your job, you're fighting for your heritage.




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