Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream

In 1981, near the end of the second post-World War II energy crisis and at the onset of the nation's most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it called a 'providential plant' destined to be a new and saving crop: the Jerusalem artichoke. In this book, the author tells the story of the failed attempt by a less-than-honest businessman to introduce this new crop to a depressed agricultural region of the United States..Amato, Joseph is the author of 'Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus The Buying and Selling of the Rural American Dream' with ISBN 9780816623457 and ISBN 0816623457.