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X-WR-CALDESC:How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America’s m
 ost famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement.\n\nLouis Bromfie
 ld was a World War I ambulance driver\, a Paris expat\, and a Pulitzer Pri
 ze–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But
  he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his
  native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm\, Mala
 bar\, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popu
 larize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson’s Silent 
 Spring. A lanky Midwestern farm boy dressed up like a Left Bank bohemian\,
  Bromfield stood out in literary Paris for his lavish hospitality and his 
 green thumb. He built a magnificent garden outside the city where he enter
 tained aristocrats\, movie stars\, flower breeders\, and writers of all st
 ripes. Gertrude Stein enjoyed his food\, Edith Wharton admired his roses\,
  Ernest Hemingway boiled with jealousy over his critical acclaim. Millions
  savored his novels\, which were turned into Broadway plays and Hollywood 
 blockbusters\, yet Bromfield’s greatest passion was the soil.\n\nIn 1938\,
  Bromfield returned to Ohio to transform 600 badly eroded acres into a thr
 iving cooperative farm\, which became a mecca for agricultural pioneers an
 d a country retreat for celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
  (who were married there in 1945).\n\nThis sweeping biography unearths a l
 ost icon of American culture\, a fascinating\, hilarious and unclassifiabl
 e character who―between writing and plowing―also dabbled in global politic
 s and high society. Through it all\, he fought for an agriculture that wou
 ld enrich the soil and protect the planet. While Bromfield’s name has fade
 d into obscurity\, his mission seems more critical today than ever before.
 \n
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DESCRIPTION:How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America’s mo
 st famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement.\n\nLouis Bromfiel
 d was a World War I ambulance driver\, a Paris expat\, and a Pulitzer Priz
 e–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But 
 he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his 
 native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm\, Malab
 ar\, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popul
 arize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson’s Silent S
 pring. A lanky Midwestern farm boy dressed up like a Left Bank bohemian\, 
 Bromfield stood out in literary Paris for his lavish hospitality and his g
 reen thumb. He built a magnificent garden outside the city where he entert
 ained aristocrats\, movie stars\, flower breeders\, and writers of all str
 ipes. Gertrude Stein enjoyed his food\, Edith Wharton admired his roses\, 
 Ernest Hemingway boiled with jealousy over his critical acclaim. Millions 
 savored his novels\, which were turned into Broadway plays and Hollywood b
 lockbusters\, yet Bromfield’s greatest passion was the soil.\n\nIn 1938\, 
 Bromfield returned to Ohio to transform 600 badly eroded acres into a thri
 ving cooperative farm\, which became a mecca for agricultural pioneers and
  a country retreat for celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 
 (who were married there in 1945).\n\nThis sweeping biography unearths a lo
 st icon of American culture\, a fascinating\, hilarious and unclassifiable
  character who―between writing and plowing―also dabbled in global politics
  and high society. Through it all\, he fought for an agriculture that woul
 d enrich the soil and protect the planet. While Bromfield’s name has faded
  into obscurity\, his mission seems more critical today than ever before.
 \n
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield a
 nd the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman
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