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Article: Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Keith J. Volanto. Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 194. $35.00, ISBN 1-58544-402-2.)
As a first reaction, one might question the need for another book on New Deal cotton programs, considering the attention historians have given that topic since the 1960s. But Keith J. Volanto, anticipating such criticism, justifies his work convincingly. In his preface he points out that no study of cotton programs has focused on a single state--for example, there is nothing comparable to Anthony J. Badger's Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill, ...