The Machines that Broke America: Conflicts of Interests in Pare Lorentz's The Plow that Broke the Plains (original) (raw)

Adjustment Act, which was the first major measure by the new administration to combat rural poverty. As an expert of rural affairs, Tugwell had an unromantic view of the farming life. He wrote in 1930 that 'a farm is an area of vicious, ill-tempered soil with a not very good house, inadequate barns, makeshift machinery, happenstance stock, tired, over-worked men and women -and all the pests and bucolic plagues that nature has evolved…a place where ugly, brooding monotony, that haunts by day and night, unseats the mind'.