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American country life : a legacy / Gene Wunderlich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wunderlich, Gene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Country Life Association.
- United States--Rural conditions.
- United States.
- Rural conditions.
- Sociology, Rural--United States.
- Sociology, Rural.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 208 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]
- Contents:
- Country Life and the Association 2
- Lessons About Organization 4
- Lessons About Rural Life 6
- The New Rural America 9
- Chapter 2 The People of ACLA 11
- Leadership 12
- Kenyon Butterfield 12
- Henry C. Taylor 14
- E.W. Mueller 17
- The ACLA Umbrella: Members, Officials, Leaders 20
- Chapter 3 Generation One 25
- Roots (1900-1919) 26
- The Founding Era (1919-1928) 34
- Gathering in Maryland, 1919 34
- Chicago, 1919 39
- The Formative Years 41
- The Farm Bureau 43
- Town and Country Organization, Community, and Home, 1920-23 45
- Rural America 51
- A Flowering ACLA, 1924-28 55
- Times of Testing 66
- The Downward Economy, 1929-32 67
- New Deal years, 1933-41 70
- The Farm Foundation 75
- Farm Tenancy in the 1930s 77
- The Later Thirties, 1936-40 78
- The War Years, 1941-45 84
- Chapter 4 Generation Two 93
- Rebirth or Decline: 1946-49 94
- Seeking a Second Life, 1950-58 99
- Lobbying for a Second Commission on Country Life 106
- Community Development, Toward Excellence, 1959-1966 111
- ACLA's Last Decade, 1967-76 115
- Chapter 5 Endings As Beginnings 125
- Successors, The Spiritual Generation Three 125
- People and the Land 129
- Community 130
- Land 133
- Land and Community 136
- Stewardship 138
- Legacy for a New Rural America 140
- The Lessons 140
- In a New Rural America 141
- A. The Roosevelt Country Life Commission 145
- B. Offices of the American Country Life Association, 1919-1976 155
- C. Directors of the American Country Life Association 161
- D. Conferences of the American Country Life Association, 1919-1976 167
- E. Citations Given by the American Country Life Association 171
- F. Constitution and Bylaws of the American Country Life Association 173
- G. A Note on Motif 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761826580
- OCLC:
- 54433552
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