{"product_id":"broken-heartland-osha-gray-davidson-9780877455547","title":"Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 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 \u003ci\u003eBroken Heartland, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eBroken Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e was the first in-depth look--six years before of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Osha Gray Davidson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0877455546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877455547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.27h x 6.02w x 0.63d","brand":"Osha Gray Davidson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926730146047,"sku":"9780877455547","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_18e8564c-88cc-40b6-993f-9104d50708a1.jpg?v=1681084688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broken-heartland-osha-gray-davidson-9780877455547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}