Holiday Special Tomorrow A New World: The New Deal Community Program Gadget [85zamv1F]

Ithaca, N.Y.: Published for the American Historical Association [by] Cornell University Press, 1959. First ed. Small quarto in dark blue ribbed cloth and pale grey-blue illus jacket; ix, 350 pages maps (3 folded) 24 cm; bibliographical footnotes and index. Edges lighlty foxed; else fine in very good price-clipped, sparsely foxed jacket with a few small tears and a small puncture to jacket front joint. . Hardcover.

Contents: Introduction -- The Land-Our Refuge and Our Strength -- Bringing the Town to the Country -- Bringing the Country to the Town -- From Acorn to Oak -- The Subsistence Homesteads Program -- The Federal Emergency Relief Administration Communities -- America Resettled -- The Community as a Locale for a New Society -- The Old Society Reasseits Its Claims -- Arthurdale-An Experimental Community -- Jersey Homesteads-A Triple Co-operative -- Penderlea Homesteads-Something Less than a Rural Paradise -- Granger Homesteads-An Escape from Modernity -- The Greenbelt Towns -- In Retrospect -- Appendix -- Bibliographical Note -- Index Rural development -- United States. Social change. Rural development. Social change. United States. Farm Security Administration. United States. Farm Security Administration.