| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. By Allan Carlson. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2000. vii, 224 pp. $32.95, ISBN 1-56000-421-5.)

Those who turn to Allan Carlson's The New Agrarian Mind seeking inspiration to revive the old agrarian republic may find themselves disappointed. For although he is sympathetic to agrarian life, Carlson is no mere apologist for the modern proponents of agrarianism. 1

Liberty Hyde Bailey, a professor at Cornell University and the father of the Country Life movement, set the agenda for the new agrarianism of the twentieth century. Yet Bailey's influence on the agrarian mind was often far from salutary. The flaws in his vision resurfaced in the rural sociology of Carle Zimmerman, the political economy of Ralph Borsodi, the agrarian novels of Louis Bromfield, the antimodernist, anti-industrial, and anticapitalist thought of the southern agrarians and the American distributists, and to a lesser extent the Catholic communitarianism of Father Luigi Ligutti and the "Agrarian Traditionalism" of Wendell Berry. . . .

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