Review of Raising Less Com and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out

Authors

Deborah Fink, University of Iowa

Date of this Version

1990

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized around the Save the Family Farm Act; others will find insights on the symbols and themes that lie behind a highly visible rural movement of the 1980s. The bulk of the book, consisting of excerpts of interviews with fortytwo farmers and nonfarmers, mostly from Iowa and bordering states, gives vivid personal stories of the hard times of the 1980s. Pictures of many of the persons, set in the context of their daily work, help us to hear and understand the messages.