| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Admin- istration and the Farm Policy Debate. By Virgil W. Dean. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xv + 274. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

One of the many vexing domestic issues that confronted the Truman administration was farm policy. During the war, Congress had fixed price-support levels at 90 percent of the parity index in order to encourage production. After the war, these high rates could be sustained only by expensive storage and surplus control programs and with rigid production controls. Furthermore, urban consumers believed that price supports were a source of inflation. The nation badly needed a new farm policy geared to peacetime realities, and the struggle to devise such a policy is the subject of Virgil Dean's book An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate.

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