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By: C. J MaloneyeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia
Today, the U.S. government is again moving to embrace New Deal-like economic policies. While much has been written about the New Deal from a macro perspective, little has been written about how New Deal programs played out on the ground.
In Back to the Land , author CJ Maloney tells the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a "pet project" of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) "a human experiment station", she was to create a "New American" citizen who would embrace a collectivist form of life. This book tells the story of what happened to the people resettled in Arthurdale and how the policies implemented there shaped America as we know it. Arthurdale was the foundation upon which modern America was built. Details economic history at the micro level, revealing the true effects of New Deal economic policies on everyday life Addresses the pros and cons of federal government economic policies Describes how good intentions and grand ideas can result in disastrous consequences, not only in purely materialistic terms but, most important, in respect for the rule of law
Back to the Land is a valuable addition to economic and historical literature.
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| Title of eBook: Back to the Land | |
| Release Date: 02-23-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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Back to the Land
Chapter One
The Damnedest Cesspool of Human Misery
Oh, the pity of it. —Mary Behner, missionary, Scotts Run, West Virginia (1932)
It was 1933. After nearly a decade, the fighting within Scotts Run had finally petered out. A reporter from the Christian Century, Charles R. Joy, had been sent to observe conditions in the area. He watched as a coal train rumbled slowly past a row of derelict cabins, abandoned and silent, like many of the coal mines spread in the hills around and above. The train, its cars piled high with coal, screeched to a halt.
A sudden burst of ragged families rushed out of the cabins and pounced on the immobile train. After climbing up the sides of the cars, they tossed coal out onto the ground as fast as they could. By the time the train left six minutes later (per Mr. Joy's timepiece), the coal in the railcars were no longer piled high, but concave.
"I suppose it is awful for us to be doing this, but if we didn't do it, we'd freeze," explained one woman to the incredulous reporter. What he witnessed must have seemed straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, but by the early 1930s, it was a scene repeated from one end of the hollow to the other. Sidney D. Lee, who grew up in Scotts Run, recalled that "in 1926, purchased coal cost at least $3 a ton" from the local stores, far out of many families' reach. For them, scrounging for coal was a necessary part of surviving West Virginia's harsh winters, and children throughout the Run ran to w
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