An opportunity lost the Truman administration and the farm policy debate /

"Examines Charles Brannan's agricultural plan, the farm policy debate, and Harry S. Truman's quest for a long-range agricultural program. Assesses Truman's relationships with farmers and with politicians and the search for a workable peacetime program, especially as it related to...

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Main Author: Dean, Virgil W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The search begins
  • The Eightieth Congress tries to "fix the roof"
  • Farm policy and the election of 1948
  • The Brannan farm plan: agricultural panacea or political football?
  • Reaction to the Brannan plan
  • The Brannan plan in Congress
  • The Brannan plan in 1950.