| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index. |
| Contents |
The damnedest cesspool of human misery -- The angel of Arthurdale arrives -- The definition of insanity -- We lucky few -- Spending money like drunken sailors -- Epilogue to the victor, the spoils. |
| Summary |
How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia. Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like economic policies. While much has been written about the New Deal from a macro perspective, little has been written about how New Deal programs played out on the ground. In Back to the Land, author CJ Maloney tells the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a "pet project" of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) "a human experiment station", she was to create a "N |
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Subsistence farming -- West Virginia -- Arthurdale.
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Land settlement -- West Virginia -- Arthurdale.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West Virginia -- Arthurdale.
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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New Deal. |
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New Deal. |
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New Deal, 1933-1939 |
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Frontier and pioneer life |
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Land settlement |
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Subsistence farming |
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West Virginia -- Arthurdale |
| Chronological Term |
1933-1939 |
| Genre |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Maloney, C.J., 1969- Back to the land. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2011 9780470610633 (DLC) 2010045672 (OCoLC)674938430 |
| ISBN |
9781118023532 (electronic bk.) |
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1118023536 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118023570 (electronic bk.) |
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1118023579 (electronic bk.) |
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1283026791 |
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9781283026796 |
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1118886925 (Trade Paper) |
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9781118886922 |
| Standard No. |
9781118886922 |
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