{"product_id":"r-f-d-charles-allen-smart-9780821412541","title":"R. F. D.: Charles Allen Smart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book,\" the author tells us in his preface, \"is intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s.\" It is a faithful portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from pioneering times to the present century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1938 to enthusiastic reviews and commercial success, RFD is the story of one couple's trials with leaving the comforts of city life for a chance to get back to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom his farm near Chillicothe, Ohio, Charles Allen Smart gives a realistic rendering of what it meant to farm in the 1930s. It is part of the book's intrinsic honesty that it could not be as good as \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e. Thoreau had worked out a philosophy that suited him and that he was ready to recommend to others. Mr. Smart had no prescription for the general ailments, beyond a belief that creating things is important and that owning, buying, and selling things are unimportant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat he tells us throughout this unusual book is that for him life on this particular farm, in this particular house, with this particular set-up of friends, neighbors, dogs, sheep, hens, cattle, trees, corn, vegetables, grass, and weather, costs less in human values than life in New York City-or in Chillicothe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOhio University Press is especially pleased to reissue this midwestern classic with a new foreword by noted farm writer Gene Logsdon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Allen Smart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082141254X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821412541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.45h x 4.97w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/19\/1998 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1998","brand":"Charles Allen Smart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926521577727,"sku":"9780821412541","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_caf648a9-ec1c-4ab2-9eee-26c5f003abc9.jpg?v=1681083527","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/r-f-d-charles-allen-smart-9780821412541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}