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digest-31974	Rini Larson, Rosalind V.	Review of: Rooted Resistance: : Agrarian Myth in Modern America	2020	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1090	28	26	Chapter 2 profiles the postwar effects of this wartime expansion for American farmers by conducting a close analysis of the use of American agrarian myth in the writings of the American Country Life Association, an organization whose mission was to advocate for rural citizens and farmers as essential to democracy. Linked to a democratic political vision since the era of Thomas Jefferson’s influential writings on the yeoman farmer as the ideal democratic citizen, American agrarian myth not only asserts the exceptional moral, social, and political virtue provided by pre-industrial family farming, but the exceptional character of Americans as a people empowered and shaped by the collective experience of agrarian life.	cache/digest-31974.pdf	txt/digest-31974.txt