| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945. By Michael Johnston Grant. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. x + 233 pp. Illustrations, map, table, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $30.50, paper.)

The New Deal is overdue for reconsideration from the perspective of those who received its aid. Michael Johnston Grant's Down and Out on the Family Farm is a study of the rural rehabilitation programs (administered by the Resettlement Administration and later by the Farm Security Administration) and their reception in the Great Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota). Grant argues that these programs were crucial as relief for farm people in these states, but that their long-term impact in rehabilitating "borderline" farmers was far less successful because the programs lacked flexibility in adapting to the World War II economy, were not sufficiently funded, met opposition from generally conservative Great Plains residents and from special interest groups at the national level, and failed to recognize economic trends that encouraged larger and more capitalized farms.

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