Donald Holley was a professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello for many years. He was the author of Uncle Sam’s Farmers: The New Deal Communities of the Lower Mississippi Valley, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Historical Association.
This is truly an outstanding study . . . a large and detailed look
at a very important topic." —Gilbert C. Fite, Professor Emeritus of
History, University of Georgia
"Cogent, well-reasoned, and clearly written. Anyone interested in
American agricultural and Arkansas history will find this book a
must read." —Arkansas Historical Quarterly
"An engaging discussion of the push-pull debate about mass
out-migration and technological change, inventors and the process
of invention, and long-run structural change in an economy."
—Journal of Economic History
"A fascinating history. Students of the history of agriculture,
Delta farm labor, the South, and especially the mechanical cotton
picker will find Holley’s book to be an indispensible guide."
—Agricultural History
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