Global Heartland picture book takes the reader back to

takes the reader back to when these machines were brand new additions to the farmer’s fleet

This fact-packed volume takes you through dozens of John Deere farm models

a reproduction of the 74-page shop manual

transport the reader to another time when life moved slower and family and community were important

Global Heartland picture book takes the reader back toThough often left out of the story of the making of the American Century, the farmers of the Midwest were at its center, fueling the nations growing power in the mid twentieth century. In Global Heartland, Peter Simons explores how, after decades of slipping to the margins of an urbanizing economy, these farmers assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential sustenance for overseas troops and food rations for a domestic