'So God Made a Farmer': The US Agrarian Imaginary and the Lived Assemblages of Settlement and Empire.
In support of the National FFA Organization (formerly, the Future Farmers of America), Ram Trucks declared 2013 the 'Year of the Farmer.' Their commemorative Super Bowl commercial featured radio broadcaster Paul Harvey's iconic 1978 speech, 'So God Made a Farmer.' This essay interrogates Harvey's sp...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 16; no. 1/2; pp. 43 - 66 |
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