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King Cotton's advocate : Oscar G. Johnston and the New Deal /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Lawrence J., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1999]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Johnston, Oscar G. > (Oscar Goodbar), > 1880-1955.
Politicians > Mississippi > Biography.
Cotton farmers > Mississippi > Biography.
Cotton growing > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
Mississippi > Economic conditions.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Oscar
  • Corporate planter
  • Golden egg
  • Ten-cent rescue
  • Acres, not bales
  • An ounce of remedy, a pound of reform
  • Welfare capitalist
  • Cotton diplomat
  • Outwitting the speculators
  • Tempest in a tea pot
  • Fence rails and graveyards
  • King Cotton needs a voice
  • I have never liked the term "New Deal"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.