{"product_id":"r-f-d-charles-allen-smart-paperback","title":"R. F. D.: Charles Allen Smart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Allen Smart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book,\" the author tells us in his preface, \"is intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s.\" It is a faithful portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from pioneering times to the present century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1938 to enthusiastic reviews and commercial success, RFD is the story of one couple's trials with leaving the comforts of city life for a chance to get back to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom his farm near Chillicothe, Ohio, Charles Allen Smart gives a realistic rendering of what it meant to farm in the 1930s. It is part of the book's intrinsic honesty that it could not be as good as \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e. Thoreau had worked out a philosophy that suited him and that he was ready to recommend to others. Mr. Smart had no prescription for the general ailments, beyond a belief that creating things is important and that owning, buying, and selling things are unimportant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat he tells us throughout this unusual book is that for him life on this particular farm, in this particular house, with this particular set-up of friends, neighbors, dogs, sheep, hens, cattle, trees, corn, vegetables, grass, and weather, costs less in human values than life in New York City-or in Chillicothe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOhio University Press is especially pleased to reissue this midwestern classic with a new foreword by noted farm writer Gene Logsdon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Allen Smart\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Cleveland in 1904, was raised on the East Coast and died in his adopted home near Chillicothe in 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 7.45 x 4.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468555731197,"sku":"9780821412541","price":51.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/M1dBa0hkZHMzQzJ4MEloRDdkWmI1dz09.webp?v=1777290444","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/r-f-d-charles-allen-smart-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}