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Title: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: A Report of the Agribusiness Accountability Project on the Failure of America's Land Grant College Complex by Jim Hightower ISBN: 0-87073-625-6 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Summary: Fact-based, Original, Brilliant!
Comment: If you're looking for facts, and some real, honest analysis of the way your money is spent in the land-grant university systems, here's the book for you. Although the book is relatively old, the basic orientation hasn't really changed much at the land-grant schools. In The Politics of Agricultural Research, Don Hadwiger described Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times as an "exposé [that] helped bring about a reappraisal of the marvelous but flawed product of agricultural research."

As Hightower puts it: "Tax dollars buy new tinker toys for agribusiness, misery for migrants, death for rural America and more taxes for urban America. All in the name of efficiency" (p.110). The future, now former, Texas Agriculture Commissioner lays it all out, with facts and figures.

As Ronald Reagan's farewell address warned, beware of the "iron triangles," a phrase coined by J. Leiper Freeman. In fact, this is a great book to read after reading the seminal work by J. Leiper Freeman's The Political Process (1955).