Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus : The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream.
Title:
Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus : The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream.
Author:
Amato, Joseph A.
ISBN:
9780816685479
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Beckoning Plant -- 1. A Country Prophet -- 2. A Bulldozing Businessman -- 3. Buyers and Sellers of Seed -- 4. A Perfect Consultant -- 5. What Made the Company Run -- 6. Killing off the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg -- 7. Folding up the Tent -- 8. The County Attorney and His Investigator -- 9. The Lost Covenant -- Conclusion: The Planets Went Astray -- Chronology -- AEFS Organizational Structure -- Notes -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
In 1981, near the end of America's second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a "providential plant" destined to be a new and saving crop- the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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