An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: Gardner, Bruce | Copyright information

An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate. By Virgil W. Dean. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xv, 275. $39.95.)

In this book, the author examines a notable "might have been" in the history of U.S. farm policy, the Brannan Plan as developed and debated during 1947-1950. Seven chronologically ordered chapters trace the events from conception of the idea to its political resolution in 1949 and 1950. Other histories of ...

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