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Book Review of Final Harvest: An American Tragedy

Final Harvest: An American Tragedy
Final Harvest: An American Tragedy
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Jim Jenkins was a Minnesota farmer who believed in hard work and the American Dream. He couldn't understand it when all that his hard work produced was a growing pile of debt.
Rudy Blythe was a banker who wanted to help people achieve the American Dream. But he couldn't help it when circumstances forced him to call in loans and foreclose on farms.
This was the stuff of tragedy - a tragedy that cast a long and brooding shadow on the Midwest heartland and, on September 29, 2983, exploded in a hail of bullets and a shower of blood...