{"product_id":"the-farm-security-administration-and-rural-rehabilitation-in-the-south-hardcover","title":"The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Kenneth Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book fills an important void in the historical literature on New Deal reform and significantly updates Sidney Baldwin's 1968 book on the FSA. Through the lens of the programs of the FSA, Charles Kenneth Roberts does an excellent job of relating how New Deal programs attempted to rehabilitate poor, rural southerners.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Aaron D. Purcell, author of \u003ci\u003eArthur Morgan: A Progressive Vision for American Reform\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the roaring twenties turned into the depressed thirties, southern farmers, far removed from the urban prosperity Americans had enjoyed during the 1920s heyday, found already difficult farming conditions greatly intensified by the onset of the Great Depression. Agricultural incompetence plagued the rural South through the misuse of land, depletion of natural resources, and a system of single-crop farming that failed to adequately provide for growing families on small farms, especially in the cotton-producing Southeast. Poverty and desperation came to define the farming communities of the rural South, both in reality and in Americans' collective conscious. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Kenneth Roberts traces the administrative and political history of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and reconciles the administration's goals with Franklin D. Roosevelt's overall vision for the New Deal. Roberts takes a grassroots approach to dissecting the FSA's history. While other studies have focused on FSA photography or community building, or even policy making in terms of top-down government directives, Roberts focuses on the people and state governments who faced an immediate need to aid southern farmers within their own borders and to boost their states' crumbling agricultural economic bases. Roberts focuses on rural rehabilitation as a key aspect of the FSA and defines the agency's legacy not in terms of its failures but rather in terms of an idealistic program whose modest successes were ultimately too few to effect real change for southern farmers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though Roosevelt failed to adequately recognize the plight of the southern farmer and political infighting hindered many of the administration's goals, the creation of the FSA stands as one of the first efforts to provide sustained relief to struggling southern farmers. In light of other federal programs of the era, the FSA may seem like a mere footnote to the New Deal outside of its small but revered photography program. But, as Roberts shows, the FSA's legacy has endured to the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Charles Kenneth Roberts is a lecturer in history at Georgia Perimeter College. His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review, Southern Historian, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgricultural History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Kenneth Roberts is a lecturer in history at Georgia Perimeter College. His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAlabama Review, Southern Historian, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAgricultural History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756068397389,"sku":"9781621901600","price":94.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/jVqQLBfmQR9781621901600.webp?v=1776722019","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-farm-security-administration-and-rural-rehabilitation-in-the-south-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}