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A 3 page review of Steven R. Hoffbeck’s “The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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who are farmers, and haymakers. One of the families discussed is his own family as the author grew up in a haymaker, farming, family. While his work is historical from
a farming perspective in many ways, it is also a book that is very personal as one of the families discussed is his own. Throughout the work, a moving and
very powerful work, it seems as though the author is trying to show people what farmers have gone through, and what they go through, so that the reader will not
be ignorant to the backbone of this nation in relationship to the struggles and importance of the farmer. The following paper examines how he does this. "The Haymakers" by
Hoffbeck In one persons review, and summary, of this book it is noted that, "Both a chronicle of the daily rhythms of farm work and a moving elegy for a
vanishing way of life, the book is not so much about agricultural history as it is about family history, personal history-how farm families survive, even persevere" (Allen Tech, 2006). In
this one can get the impression that the work, although also somewhat technical in relationship to describing times of scythes and then of machinery, is focusing on the people, the
people who have persevered throughout farming history in the nation. In so many instances it seems that the nation forgets these people who are, as mentioned, the backbone of the
country. Without them, and the dangerous positions they put themselves in, the nation would not be what it is nor would it have the food it does. Hoffbeck focuses
a great deal on the hardships of working on the farm. He presents the personal tales of others, the struggles and the financial burdens and such. But, he also personally
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