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"""This volume will become the standard analysis of the Iowa Farm Crisis.""--Middle West Review ""Riney-Kehrberg Skillfully tells a very personal story of the impact of the crisis across the state.""--Kansas History""A drive across Iowa today takes one through a sea of corn and soybeans, past shuttered communities, and abandoned farmsteads. When a Dream Dies explains what happened, why it happened, and why we still feel the ramifications today.""--Nebraska History ""This book makes an important contribution to American agricultural history. Anyone interested in the history of Iowa, the Midwest, or agriculture will find this book enlightening.""--R. Douglas Hurt, Missouri Historical Review ""This is a thorough and well-written treatment of the struggles farm families endured in a time period that is very different from our own, yet one that shares many characteristics with our present condition.""--Annals of Iowa ""Riney-Kehrberg does an excellent job covering macroeconomic issues while seasoning the text with poignant individual, family, and community illustrations.""--Choice ""While most historians see the Farm Crisis as primarily an economic story, Riney-Kehrberg demonstrates unequivocally that it was a family story first and foremost. Her attention to the enormous role played by women, not only in working on and off the farm but in managing the emotional and social life of the family within the community, is first-rate. Anyone interested in the strengths and tragic flaws of rural life in America needs to read this book.""--Deborah Fitzgerald, Leverett Howell and William King Cutten Professor of the History of Technology and department head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT ""The story of the final agonizing era for the old agrarian and small-town Midwest is expertly told in these pages by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, who brings a sharp eye to the sad and lamentable 1980s Farm Crisis in the heart of the Midwest: Iowa. The story conveys the one-time centrality of small-scale farming to Midwestern life and reminds us of how much we have lost.""--Jon Lauck, founding president of the Midwestern History Association and editor in chief of the Middle West Review"

While most historians see this as primarily an economic story, Riney-Kehrberg demonstrates unequivocally that it was a family story first and foremost. Her attention to the enormous role played by women, not only in working on and off the farm, but in managing the emotional and social life of the family within the community, is first-rate. Anyone interested in the strengths and tragic flaws of rural life in America needs to read this book.--Deborah Fitzgerald, Leverett Howell and William King Cutten Professor of the History of Technology Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT The story of the final agonizing era for the old agrarian and small-town Midwest is expertly told in these pages by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, who brings a sharp eye to the sad and lamentable 1980s farm crisis in the heart of the Midwest: Iowa. The story conveys the one-time centrality of small-scale farming to midwestern life and reminds us of how much we have lost.--Jon Lauck, is the founding president of the Midwestern History Association and editor in chief of the Middle West Review

While most historians see this as primarily an economic story, Riney-Kehrberg demonstrates unequivocally that it was a family story first and foremost. Her attention to the enormous role played by women, not only in working on and off the farm, but in managing the emotional and social life of the family within the community, is first-rate. Anyone interested in the strengths and tragic flaws of rural life in America needs to read this book. --Deborah Fitzgerald, Leverett Howell and William King Cutten Professor of the History of Technology Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT The story of the final agonizing era for the old agrarian and small-town Midwest is expertly told in these pages by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, who brings a sharp eye to the sad and lamentable 1980s farm crisis in the heart of the Midwest: Iowa. The story conveys the one-time centrality of small-scale farming to midwestern life and reminds us of how much we have lost. --Jon Lauck, is the founding president of the Midwestern History Association and editor in chief of the Middle West Review

"""Riney-Kehrberg does an excellent job covering macroeconomic issues while seasoning the text with poignant individual, family, and community illustrations.""--Choice ""While most historians see this as primarily an economic story, Riney-Kehrberg demonstrates unequivocally that it was a family story first and foremost. Her attention to the enormous role played by women, not only in working on and off the farm, but in managing the emotional and social life of the family within the community, is first-rate. Anyone interested in the strengths and tragic flaws of rural life in America needs to read this book.""--Deborah Fitzgerald, Leverett Howell and William King Cutten Professor of the History of Technology Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT ""The story of the final agonizing era for the old agrarian and small-town Midwest is expertly told in these pages by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, who brings a sharp eye to the sad and lamentable 1980s farm crisis in the heart of the Midwest: Iowa. The story conveys the one-time centrality of small-scale farming to midwestern life and reminds us of how much we have lost.""--Jon Lauck, is the founding president of the Midwestern History Association and editor in chief of the Middle West Review"

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Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, and a fellow of the Agricultural History Society.

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