02706nam 2200553Ia 450 991078438550332120230421043826.00-8166-8547-9(CKB)1000000000347165(EBL)310256(OCoLC)476093338(SSID)ssj0000165323(PQKBManifestationID)11924521(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165323(PQKBWorkID)10148135(PQKB)10188127(MiAaPQ)EBC310256(Au-PeEL)EBL310256(CaPaEBR)ebr10159413(CaONFJC)MIL523411(EXLCZ)99100000000034716519930310d1993 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe great Jerusalem artichoke circus[electronic resource] the buying and selling of the rural American dream /Joseph A. Amato ; foreword by Paul GruchowMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19931 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2345-7 0-8166-2344-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Beckoning Plant; 1. A Country Prophet; 2. A Bulldozing Businessman; 3. Buyers and Sellers of Seed; 4. A Perfect Consultant; 5. What Made the Company Run; 6. Killing off the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg; 7. Folding up the Tent; 8. The County Attorney and His Investigator; 9. The Lost Covenant; Conclusion: The Planets Went Astray; Chronology; AEFS Organizational Structure; Notes; Sources; IndexIn 1981, near the end of America's second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a "providential plant" destined to be a new and saving crop- the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980's.Buying and selling of the rural American dreamHorticultural products industryUnited StatesHorticultural products industry338.10973381/.41524/0973Amato Joseph Anthony1510844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784385503321The great Jerusalem artichoke circus3854890UNINA