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- catalog abstract "America's disappearing family farmer is often portrayed as either a figure of pitiable tragedy or glorified romance. But in one of the most unusual books ever written on farming, farmer and Greek scholar Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains how neither portrait conveys what really matters about farming. As the family farm all but vanishes in our nation, it is neither food production nor the environment that will most suffer - but rather our nation will lose its last real connection with the virtues and work ethic that our founding fathers had themselves inherited from the wisdom of classical Greek culture and upon which American society rests. A fifth-generation vine and fruit grower, Hanson furnishes unsparing portraits of these vanishing agrarians through tales of their perseverance, pain, faith - and baser tendencies as well. Painting a vivid contrast between true agrarians and the corrupt routines of contemporary life, Hanson provides a brutally honest memoir that will contradict quaint notions of the family farm of movies and television. But out of this intimate essay on the trials of working the land emerges something of greater importance: a defense of the agrarian idea as central to the virtues that shaped America, rooted in both the principles of the ancient Greeks and the modern knowledge we hold true today.".
- catalog contributor b9052843.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "A fifth-generation vine and fruit grower, Hanson furnishes unsparing portraits of these vanishing agrarians through tales of their perseverance, pain, faith - and baser tendencies as well. Painting a vivid contrast between true agrarians and the corrupt routines of contemporary life, Hanson provides a brutally honest memoir that will contradict quaint notions of the family farm of movies and television. But out of this intimate essay on the trials of working the land emerges something of greater importance: a defense of the agrarian idea as central to the virtues that shaped America, rooted in both the principles of the ancient Greeks and the modern knowledge we hold true today.".
- catalog description "America's disappearing family farmer is often portrayed as either a figure of pitiable tragedy or glorified romance. But in one of the most unusual books ever written on farming, farmer and Greek scholar Victor Davis Hanson eloquently explains how neither portrait conveys what really matters about farming. As the family farm all but vanishes in our nation, it is neither food production nor the environment that will most suffer - but rather our nation will lose its last real connection with the virtues and work ethic that our founding fathers had themselves inherited from the wisdom of classical Greek culture and upon which American society rests.".
- catalog description "In the beginning -- The raisin cosmology -- The great raisin crash of 1983 -- To save a farm -- Bus Barzagus and his mountain -- Briars and thorns: vines with no grapes, trees without plums -- The mountain, part two -- The agrarian pantheon -- The first and last: family farming at the millennium -- Postscript: Year's end 1994.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 289 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fields without dreams.".
- catalog identifier "0684822997".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fields without dreams.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Fields without dreams.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.1/6 20".
- catalog subject "Agriculture Economic aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Family farms United States.".
- catalog subject "HD1476.U5 H28 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "In the beginning -- The raisin cosmology -- The great raisin crash of 1983 -- To save a farm -- Bus Barzagus and his mountain -- Briars and thorns: vines with no grapes, trees without plums -- The mountain, part two -- The agrarian pantheon -- The first and last: family farming at the millennium -- Postscript: Year's end 1994.".
- catalog title "Fields without dreams : defending the agrarian idea / Victor Davis Hanson.".
- catalog type "text".