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200 14$aThe great Jerusalem artichoke circus$b[electronic resource] $ethe buying and selling of the rural American dream /$fJoseph A. Amato ; foreword by Paul Gruchow
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1993
215   $a1 online resource (280 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Index
330   $aIn 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.
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