Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 68
Agribusiness Accountability Project
Records, 1954-1976, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator:

Agribusiness Accountability Project

title:

Records

dates:

1954-1976, n.d.

extent:

14.7 linear ft. (35 document boxes)

collection number:

MS 68

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Agribusiness Accountability Project Records, MS 68, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

A public interest organization founded in 1970 and based in Washington, D.C., the Agribusiness Accountability Project (AAP) was the joint endeavor of three Washington public interest groups: the Project on Corporate Responsibility, the Center for Community Change, and the Washington Research Project. Funded by the Field Foundation and staffed by Jerry J. Berman, Jim Hightower, Nancy Mills, and Philip Sorensen, one of the goals of the Project was to serve as "an inquiry into the accountability of large American corporations and agribusiness interests for the plight and powerlessness of migrant and seasonal workers." Initially concerned with migrant and seasonal farm workers, it soon turned to additional issues such as corporate power in agriculture, the land grant college system, cooperatives, rural social movements, and tax loss farming.

The project resulted in the books Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College Complex (1972) and Eat Your Heart Out: Food Profiteering in America (1975), both authored by Jim Hightower.

 

Collection description

The collection (1954-1976, n.d.) contains articles, biographical information, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, news releases, publications, reports, printed materials, research files, speeches, statements, book manuscripts, and responses to the first publication (Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times). The responses include editorials, articles and letters. The collection documents the work of the project in revealing the impact of corporate interests on the practice of agriculture in the United States.

In addition to general research materials documenting agribusiness, cooperatives, the land-grant college system, migrant workers, and urbanization, the collection contains the manuscripts and research files associated with Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times and Eat Your Heart Out. Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times and Eat Your Heart Out are the culmination and result of the AAP material that precedes these manuscripts in the collection. Subjects in the manuscript research files include the role of agribusiness and corporations in agriculture; migration from small farms to urban areas; migrant workers; nomination of Earl Butz as Secretary of Agriculture; rural social movements in the seventies; the land grant college system; food action campaign; cooperatives; farm taxation; and the National Farmers Organization.

After the task force report, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, by Jim Hightower came out, the AAP arranged to publish a trade edition with Schenkman Publishing Company (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Please note that the responses to the publication of Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times are towards the end of the collection. These may either refer to the original printing of the Report in 1972 or to the Schenkman publication of 1973 since the differences are minimal. The 1973 copy does have an extra appendix, N, entitled Senate Hearings: The Role of the Land Grant Colleges, June 19 and 20, 1972. The other manuscript, Eat Your Heart Out, was published by Crown Publishers, Incorporated. Titles in quotes are taken directly from the original file folder labels.

 

Related materials

Publications related to the collection, Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (both the 1972 and 1973 versions) and Eat Your Heart Out, can be found in the library's book collections.

 

Organization

The finding aid is arranged with the formation, administration and general research materials in the front, followed by files related to the publications of Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times and then Eat Your Heart Out.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Formation: James Hightower vita

n.d.

1

2

Formation: proposal and reports

1970-1974

1

3

Formation: funding needs and related correspondence

1973

1

4

Formation: funding proposals to Wallace-Eljabar Fund

1973

1

5

Formation: progress memorandum, report, and appendices - articles, clippings, letters and reviews

1970-1971

1

6

Formation: Project Report - history, table of contents, and appendices (articles, clippings, letters and reviews)

1970-1971

1

7

Formation: Project Report - appendices (articles, clippings, letters and reviews)

1970-1971

1

8

Research reports on corporations

1970-1972

1

9

Research reports on corporations

1973

2

1-2

Research reports on corporations

1970-1974

2

3

Report on work of AAP

1973

2

4

Bibliography on work of AAP

1972-1974

2

5

U.S. Congress: Testimony for Senate Migratory Labor Subcommittee

1970

2

6

U.S. Congress: Statements for the House Committee on Agriculture

1971

2

7

U.S. Congress: Statements for Subcommittee on the Environment (U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce)

1971-1973

2

8

Statements, speeches and letters relating to corporate power in agriculture

1971-1973

2

8a

News media comments: Robert W. Long

n.d.

2

9

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: Subcommittee on monopoly hearings on the role of giant corporations

1970-1971

2

10

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: Congressional records, statements, news stories, articles, Legislative Research Service

1967-1970

2

11

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: Planning related to small towns

1969-1971

2

12

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: Family and Larger than Family Farms (1962); Changes in Farm Production and Efficiency (1966); The Other Iowa (1971)

1962-1971

2

13

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: protection for migratory laborers and farm workers: news releases, letters, and statements

1970-1971

2

14

Migration from small farms to urban areas and the migrant worker: disaster relief for workers

1971

2

15

Anti-poverty groups opposing Earl Butz as Secretary of Agriculture: speeches and statements

1971

2

16

Speech on rural social movements in the 1970s by James Hightower

1972

2

17

Publications: agribusiness and corporate farming

1972

3

1

Cornell University and migrant farm workers (Cornell Camp): articles, clippings, letters, photographs, and statements

1971

3

2

Wayne County Peoples Coalition proposal

1971

3

3

Cornell Study: history, footnote guide, supplementary references, notes

n.d.

3

4

Coca-Cola Foods Division Agricultural Labor Program: project and correspondence

1970-1972

3

5

Coca-Cola Foods Division Agricultural Labor Program: notes

1970-1972

3

6

Coca-Cola Foods Division Agricultural Labor Program: Farm workers protest: articles, news clippings, reports, photographs

1971-1972

3

7

University of Florida Study on Working Conditions for Workers: articles and reports

1969-1971

3

8

University of Florida Study on Working Conditions for Workers: Division of Sponsored Research, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) memoranda

1969-1971

3

9

University of Florida Study on Working Conditions for Workers: Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc. - preliminary survey and resource analysis of Southern Florida Agribusiness

1971

3

10

Nebraska Small Towns and Small Farmer Study

1971

3

11

The Obsolete America draft script for an NBC-TV documentary

1971

3

12

Leaving Home Blues TV script for NBC-TV

1971

3

13

Project on corporate responsibility: publications, printed materials and reports

1971-1972

3

14

Press clippings and articles on The Great American Grain Robbery and Other Stories

n.d.

3

15

Corporate farming: The Advocates transcript on Should Large Corporations be Driven Out of Farming (WGBH), selected viewer comments

1972

4

1

Land grant colleges: articles and printed materials

1969-1972

4

2

Land grant colleges: correspondence

1971-1972

4

3

Land grant colleges: Michigan State University report relating to the operation of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

n.d.

4

4

Land grant colleges: University of California report

n.d.

4

5

Land grant colleges: constituencies and correspondence

n.d.

4

6

Land grant colleges: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College preliminary report and summary

1972

4

7

Land grant colleges: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College rebuttal as related to the University of Florida

1972

4

8-9

Land grant colleges: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College articles, newspaper clippings and reviews

1972-1973

4

10

Land grant colleges: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: The Failure of the Land Grant College editorials, letters and Congressional response

1972-1973

4

11

Land grant colleges: articles and connections with agribusiness

1972

4

12

Land grant colleges: press clippings

1972

5

1

Land grant colleges: correspondence related to Congressional hearings

1972

5

2

Land grant colleges: Congressional hearings, statements, and testimony

1972

5

3

Land grant colleges: lawsuits and memoranda

1972-1973

5

4-6

Land grant colleges: lawsuit materials

1972

5

7

Food Action Campaign: correspondence

1973-1974

5

8

Food Action Campaign: background material and printed articles, materials and reports

1973

5

9

Food Action Campaign: new releases, petitions, reports, statements, and surveys

1973

5

10

Food Action Campaign: reports and statements

1972-1973

5

11-12

Food Action Campaign: newspaper clippings

1973-1974

6

1

Food Action Campaign: Conference on Consumer Action newspaper clippings, news releases, and material; Harlem Consumer Education Council Kit

1973

6

2

Food Action Campaign: Senate hearings and petition

n.d.

6

3

Food Action Campaign: price of food statements, testimony, news releases, newsletters, memoranda, newspaper clippings

1973

6

4

International food firms (Multinationals) correspondence, newspaper clippings, news releases

1973

6

5

Food Action Campaign: Activities of Advocates

n.d.

6

6

Food Action Campaign: Printed materials press

1973

6

7

Food Action Campaign: Columns and editorials

1973

6

8

Food Action Campaign: farmworker news items

1973

6

9

Cooperatives: advertising

n.d.

6

10

Cooperatives: affiliate networks and articles

n.d.

6

11

Cooperatives: American Institute of Cooperation programming, director, brochures, newsletters

1972-1973

6

12

Cooperatives: Contract Farming excerpts, related articles, letter

1970-1973

6

13

Cooperatives: The Cooperative League of the USA -booklet, brochures, newsletter

n.d.

6

14

Cooperatives: correspondence

1972-1973

6

15

Cooperatives: corporations in cooperatives information

n.d.

7

1

Cooperatives: farmer attitudes - articles and printed materials

1958-1973

7

2

Cooperatives: "Farmer Control" report information and news stories

1960-1973

7

3

Cooperatives: "Farmer Control" report photographs (6) and negative (1)

n.d.

7

4

Cooperatives: "Farmer Control" report material

1969-1974

7

5

Cooperatives: "Farmer Control of Cooperatives" report

1973

7

6

Cooperatives: Farmer Control report research material and preliminary writing

1973

7

7

Cooperatives: "Who's Minding the Coop?" report

1974

8

1-2

Cooperatives: "Farmer Control" report source material

1973

8

3

Cooperatives: foreign trade newspaper clippings and printed material

1973

8

4

Cooperatives: research materials and surveys

n.d.

8

5

Cooperatives: land grant universities

n.d.

8

6

Cooperatives: information, legal documents, newsletters, writings

n.d.

8

7

Cooperatives: lobbying articles, newspaper clippings, news releases, newsletters, statements

n.d.

8

8

Cooperatives: Rural Development Act (1972), proposed budgets, and conference agenda

1972-1974

8

9

Cooperatives: low income material, pamphlets, brochures, and news articles

n.d.

9

1

Cooperatives: articles on management

n.d.

9

2

Cooperatives: newspaper clippings on membership, education and expansion

n.d.

9

3

Cooperatives: articles, booklet, newspaper clippings on mergers

n.d.

9

4

Cooperatives: article, newspaper clippings, statements

n.d.

9

5

Cooperatives: philosophy

n.d.

9

6

Cooperatives: articles, newspaper clippings, notes, reports, statements

1972-1973

9

7

Cooperatives: articles

n.d.

9

8

Dairy cooperatives: articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, reports

n.d.

9

9

Dairy cooperatives: civil action suit, No. SA72CA49-USA v Associate Milk Producers, Inc.

1972

9

10

Dairy cooperatives: National Milk Producers Federation report and statement

1972

9

11

Dairy cooperatives: articles, lawsuit brief, newsletters, newspaper clippings, research material

n.d.

9

12

Dairy cooperatives: Nixon campaign contribution, news stories, research materials

n.d.

9

13

Grain cooperatives: bulletins, interviews, newsletters, newspaper clippings, printed materials, and reports

1972

10

1

Fruit cooperatives: newsletters, newspaper clippings, and reports

n.d.

10

2

Livestock cooperatives: articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and reports

n.d.

10

3

Poultry and egg cooperatives: articles, bulletins, information, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and reports

1973

10

4

Vegetable cooperatives: trends and forecasts

1971

10

5

Cooperatives: Agway material

n.d.

10

6

Cooperatives: Cal-Can (California Canners and Growers) material

n.d.

10

7

Cooperatives: C.F. Industries (fertilizer) material

n.d.

10

8

Cooperatives: Calcot (cotton) material

n.d.

10

9

Cooperatives: Farmaco Incorporated material

n.d.

10

10

Cooperatives: Farm Bureau material

n.d.

10

11

Cooperatives: Farmland Industries material

n.d.

10

12

Cooperatives: Farmers Union Central Exchange material

n.d.

10

13

Cooperatives: Gold-Kist material

n.d.

10

14

Cooperatives: Landmark Incorporated material

n.d.

10

15

Cooperatives: Land O' Lakes material

n.d.

11

1

Cooperatives: Mid-American Dairy material

n.d.

11

2

Cooperatives: Midland Cooperatives (Biweekly News)

n.d.

11

3

Cooperatives: Natural Organic Farmers Association material

n.d.

11

4

Cooperatives: Other cooperatives

n.d.

11

5

Cooperatives: Sioux Honey Association material

n.d.

11

6

Sugar Cooperatives: Great Western United, American Crystal and Crystal Growers Corporation material

n.d.

11

7-8

Cooperatives: citrus growers - Sunkist material

n.d.

11

9

Cooperatives: Sunmaid Raisins material

n.d.

11

10

Cooperatives: United Egg Producers material

n.d.

11

11

Cooperatives: Western Farmers Association material

n.d.

11

12

Cooperatives: questionnaire sent to various coops

n.d.

12

1

Cooperatives: banking information

1960-1973

12

2

Cooperatives: bargaining information

1960-1973

12

3

Cooperatives: business information

1963-1973

12

4

Cooperatives: economic data

1959-1972

13

1

Cooperatives: economic trends

1968-1973

13

2

Cooperatives: articles by Eric Thor/Farmer Coop Service

1968-1973

13

3

Cooperatives: economic publications on cattle industry and crop insurance

n.d.

13

4

Cooperatives: marketing (Florida citrus industry)

1959; 1972

13

5

Cooperatives: patronage refunds

1973

13

6

Cooperatives: production of livestock

1969-1973

13

7

Cooperatives: USDA-FCS Policy and Administration booklets, statements, reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, new releases

1972-1973

13

8

Farm taxation: capital gains

1972-1973

13

9

Farm taxation: depreciation

n.d.

13

10

Farm taxation: estate taxes

1967-1973

14

1

Farm taxation: income tax

1966-1973

14

2

Farm taxation: legislation

1966-1967

14

3

Farm taxation: meetings

1967

14

4

Farm taxation: irrigation ditch deduction

1965-1968

14

5

Farm taxation: publications

n.d.

14

6

Farm taxation: Securities and Exchange Commission on real estate

n.d.

14

7

Farm taxation: taxation statements, bills, summary

1969-1973

14

8

Farm taxation: U.S. Treasury 1967 Farm Recommendations

1966-1967

14

9

Tax loss farming: correspondence and notes

1972-1973

14

10

Tax loss farmers: news articles

1972-1974

15

1

Tax shelters: brochures for investors

1971-1972

15

2

Tax shelters: cattle industry prospectuses, A-C

n.d.

15

3

Tax shelters: cattle industry prospectuses, L-W

n.d.

15

4

Tax shelters: government regulation

1972-1973

15

5

Tax shelters: investment prospectus in oil exploration

n.d.

16

1

Property: investment prospectuses, A-O

n.d.

16

2

Property: investment prospectuses, R-W

n.d.

16

3

Real estate and land fraud

n.d.

16

4

Syndication Digest (3 issues)

1972

16

5

Government hearings: grazing fees and unemployment

1969-1970

17

1

Department of Agriculture appropriations

1971

17

2

Hearings: Farmworkers in Rural America; Food Price Investigation

1971-1973

17

3

National Farmers Organization presentation audio cassette tapes

1971

17

4

Farmers Union Washington Report and Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times preliminary report

1972

18

1

Food Action Campaign, Are Your Dollars Making Farmers Rich?, What's New, Jim Hightower publications

1973-1974

18

2

What's New, Jim Hightower publications

1974

18

3

Publications (includes Jim Hightower)

1974

18

4

Agriculture Census research materials and correspondence

1973

18

5

Articles by Jim Hightower

n.d.

18

6

Research material: cooperatives

n.d.

18

7

Press releases

n.d.

18

8

Public interest groups

n.d.

18

9

"Eating High on the Hog," by Susan De Marco and Jim Hightower

1974

18

10

"Where Are We Going?"

1973-1975

19

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: Preface and preliminary outline

n.d.

19

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: Introduction

n.d.

19

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: Introduction

n.d.

19

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter I - An Overview of the Land Grant College Comp): Historical perspective

n.d.

19

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter I - An Overview of the Land Grant College Comp): Source material

n.d.

19

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter I - An Overview of the Land Grant College Comp): Legislation and laws

n.d.

19

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter I - An Overview of the Land Grant College Comp): Historical information

n.d.

19

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter I - An Overview of the Land Grant College Comp): Land grant system

n.d.

20

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - working copy and source material

n.d.

20

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - National overview of land grant college research

n.d.

20

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - Tax paid clinic for agribusiness

n.d.

20

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - Agricultural Technology and the Consumer

n.d.

20

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - Mechanization research materials

n.d.

20

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research) - Cornell mechanization products and food breeding

n.d.

20

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research): "Serving Agricultural In-put and Out-put firms"

n.d.

20

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research): Food engineering

n.d.

20

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research): "Absurd research"

n.d.

20

10

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research): Land grant college research - rural development and poverty

n.d.

20

11

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter II - Another View of Land Grant College Research): Agricultural Research Service

n.d.

21

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): report

1966

21

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): USDA-NASULGC source material

n.d.

21

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): Report of President's Task Force on Rural Development

1970

21

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): Agricultural Research Policy Advisory Committee committees

1969-1971

21

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): "Elements of the Policy Making Process"

1970

21

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): Making Research Policy working copy; Northwest Science and Education Regional Workshop report

1971

21

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): Research fads

n.d.

21

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): National Research Advisory Committee biographies

1971

21

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): congressional committees

n.d.

21

10

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): land grant college advisory committees

n.d.

21

11

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter III - Making Research Policy): articles

1968-1971

21

12

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter IV - The Failure of Research): working copy

n.d.

22

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter V - The Land Grant College Community: Old School Ties): biographical information

n.d.

22

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter V - The Land Grant College Community: Old School Ties): biographical information

n.d.

22

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter V - The Land Grant College Community: Old School Ties): chapter working copy and vita of Earl Butz

n.d.

22

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): working copy

n.d.

22

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): grants and contracts source materials

n.d.

22

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): patents

n.d.

22

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): land grant college services to agribusiness

n.d.

22

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): direct agribusiness links to land grant colleges

n.d.

22

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: land grant college research foundations, working copy

n.d.

22

10

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): Agricultural Foundations

n.d.

23

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VI - Agri-Business-Agri-Government: Ties that Bind): Land grant college general overviews

n.d.

23

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): extension in Florida

1964-1971

23

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): general source material

n.d.

23

4-4a

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): government hearing publications

1972

23

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): interviews with Extension staff

n.d.

23

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): "A People and a Spirit" -
report of joint USDA-NASULGC Extension Study Committee

n.d.

23

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): rural development

n.d.

23

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): who is being served

n.d.

23

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VII - Extension Service: Strike Three): working copy

n.d.

23

10

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter VIII: Public Disclosure): working copy, reports

1970-1971

23

11

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (Chapter IX: Conclusions and Recommendations): working copy

n.d.

23

12

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: index of people and institution references, list of figures, overview research materials

n.d.

24

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - Agricultural Organization in the Modern Industrial Economy

1968

24

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - Inventory of Agricultural Research FY 1969 and 1970, Vol. 1

n.d.

24

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - Inventory of Agricultural Research FY 1969 and 1970, Vol. 2

n.d.

24

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - Manual of Classification and Forestry Research

1970

24

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - articles

1954-1973

24

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: overview research material - financial data of land grant colleges

1969-1970

24

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: report

1972

24

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: bills

n.d.

24

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: book contract and cover design

1972

24

10

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times: correspondence - publication of article

n.d.

25

1

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: review

1972

25

2

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected response letters

1972

25

3

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected Congressional response

1972

25

4

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected editorials

1972

25

5

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected newspaper columnists

1972

25

6

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected newspaper and periodical articles

1972

25

7

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: syndicated articles

1972

25

8

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: selected press reports

1972

25

9

Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times responses: newspaper comments

1973

26

1

Eat Your Heart Out: first half of working copy and sources

n.d.

26

2

Eat Your Heart Out: second half of working copy

n.d.

26

3

Eat Your Heart Out: chapters II-VI

n.d.

26

4

Eat Your Heart Out: chapters VII-X

n.d.

26

5

Eat Your Heart Out: preface

n.d.

26

6

Eat Your Heart Out: footnotes

n.d.

27

1

Eat Your Heart Out: publisher problems and cover designs, photographs (3) of Jim Hightower

n.d.

27

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Correspondence

1974-1976

27

3-4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter I (Bigger is Better) - Research material

n.d.

27

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - 1973 grocery distribution guide

n.d.

27

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - Notes and news articles

n.d.

27

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "The New Food Biz - Selling Dinner"

n.d.

27

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "General Economics"

n.d.

27

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - Del Monte

n.d.

27

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Vertical Integration"

n.d.

27

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Monopolies, Oligopolies and Anomalies"

n.d.

27

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Food Dollar Power"

n.d.

27

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Total Food Systems"

n.d.

27

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Statistics and Cases"

n.d.

28

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Market Share Concentration"

n.d.

28

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Impacts"

n.d.

28

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Middleman Profits"

n.d.

28

4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Restaurant Integration"

n.d.

28

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Brand Name Concentration"

n.d.

28

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter II (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?) - "Del Monte, Consumer Issues"

n.d.

28

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Farmers Never Had it So Good"

n.d.

28

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Consumers and USDA"

n.d.

28

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Default of DePublic"

n.d.

28

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "The Poor Eat Poorly"

n.d.

28

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Packaging"

n.d.

28

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Retailing"

n.d.

28

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Anti-Trust Enforcement"

n.d.

28

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Monopoly Overcharges"

n.d.

28

15

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Business Practices"

n.d.

28

16

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Potatoes"

n.d.

28

17

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Raw Food Cost v Marketing Cost"

n.d.

28

18

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - product inflation

n.d.

28

19

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Bread Bakers"

n.d.

29

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "ITT - Wonder Bread"

n.d.

29

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Prices"

n.d.

29

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter III (Consumers Footing the Bill) - "Cheap Food" policy

n.d.

29

4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Taste"

n.d.

29

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Tomatoes"

n.d.

29

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Choice"

n.d.

29

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Manufactured Food"

n.d.

29

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Making Dinner your Food Future"

n.d.

29

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Puffing the Product" - soy extender

n.d.

29

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Redesigning Dinner"

n.d.

29

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Organic: Attacks to Discredit" - Articles

n.d.

29

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Shortages - Supply Manipulation"

n.d.

29

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Eaters: Let Them Eat Oligopolies"

n.d.

29

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Nutrition Labeling"

n.d.

29

15

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Nutritional Quality"

n.d.

29

16

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Statistics Reports"

n.d.

29

17

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Processing, Fabrication, Fast Food"

n.d.

29

18

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Nutri-Analysis of Fast Food Meals"

n.d.

29

19

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Del Monte and EPA"

n.d.

29

20

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IV (Biting into Oligopoly) -
"Additives and Fortification"

n.d.

30

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Special Promotions and Advertising Coupons"

n.d.

30

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Nostalgia and Nutrition Ads"

n.d.

30

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Those Trusted Magazines"

n.d.

30

4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Advertising"

n.d.

30

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Ads" (Graphics)

n.d.

30

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Ads, Cartoons, Food Jokes"

n.d.

30

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Housebrands in Supermarkets"

n.d.

30

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter V (Ads, Gimmicks and Shelf Space) - "Marketing Gimmicks"

n.d.

30

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - articles and news items

1966-1973

30

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Efficiency, Productivity, Competitiveness" -
publications and statistics

1973

30

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Way of Life" - statement before Congress and news articles

1973

30

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Cowhand on the Potomac" (Earl Butz) - news stories, talks, minutes

n.d.

30

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Growers" - opinions, articles, and news stories

1973-1974

30

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Inputs - Farming the Farmer"

n.d.

30

15

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Output - Oligopsinies" - statistics

n.d.

30

16

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Packer Control of Feed Lots" - statements, regulations, and abstract

1974

30

17

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Concentration, Profits"

n.d.

30

18

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Market Control - Cases" - memorandum and reports

1973

31

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Cost Increases" - data, statements, and statistics

1971-1973

31

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Hired Hands - Production Integration by Contract" - article and proceedings

1957-1974

31

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Can't Out Farm the Farmer"

n.d.

31

4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VI (Death of American Gothic) - "Eliminating People" (rural migration) - newsletter and reports

1971-1974

31

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - articles and notes

n.d.

31

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "Statistics and Nature of..." - articles

1960-1974

31

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "The Corporate Farmer" - articles

1971-1974

31

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "The Corporate Squeeze"

n.d.

31

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "Not by Accident" - notes

n.d.

31

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "Corporate Practices - Hiding Profits" and
"Corporate Mentality"

n.d.

31

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "The Farmer's Friend" - newspaper clippings and notes

n.d.

31

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - ABC News Closeup - Food: Green Grow the Profits (script)

1973

31

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "Bargaining" - hearings, statements, and testimony

1971-1974

31

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - "Diversification" - newspaper clippings and notes

n.d.

31

15

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VII (Limousines in the Fields) - food companies and retailers - article and reports

1971-1974

32

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - articles, news releases, and reports

1973-1974

32

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Food and Farm Policy - the Promised Land" - articles, news stories, publications, and statements

1971-1973

32

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Get Big or Get Out" - articles and newspaper clippings

1973

32

4

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Get Government out of Agriculture" - articles and news stories

1973-1974

32

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Eliminating Farm-Market Program" - correspondence, remarks, reports, and statements

1972-1973

32

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Expansionist Imperative" - articles

1974

32

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "General overview" - articles, Congressional Record, and hearings

1971-1974

32

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Milking Taxpayers" - articles, Congressional Record, news releases, and news stories

1973-1975

32

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "Mississippi Chicken Story" - news stories and reports

1974

32

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter VIII (Government: A Helping Hand) - "World Market" - articles, news releases, and statements

1973-1974

33

1

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): Agribusiness Industry Advisory Committee (USDA) - correspondence and memoranda

1968-1970

33

2

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Corporate Responsibility" - articles and news stories

1971-1974

33

3

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Government-Industry Ties" - articles, Congressional record, and news stories

1970-1973

33

4

Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Grocery Manufacturers of American, Incorporated" - news stories

1971-1972

33

5

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Innovation" - notes and remarks

1974

33

6

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Law Firms, Lobbies, Associations, Et Cetera" - hearings, notes, news stories and reports

1971-1974

33

7

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Lobbying" - newspaper clippings, news stories, and notes

1973-1974

33

8

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "National Canners Association" - booklet, meeting agenda, news clipping, and press release

1963-1973

33

9

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter IX (Business as Usual: Corporate Influence on Government): "Political Contributions" (campaign) - releases and records

1972

33

10

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): articles and news announcements

1973

33

11

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): Economic data and testimony - Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial (House Judiciary Committee)

1973

33

12

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): "Free Enterprise Myths" - articles and newspaper clippings

1974

33

13

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): "Eat Your Heart Out" - ads, newspaper clippings, and notes

n.d.

33

14

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): standardization and uniformity - articles

1972-1974

33

15

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): "Notes, Quotes, Et Cetera"

n.d.

33

16

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): newspaper clippings

1975

33

17

Eat Your Heart Out: Chapter X (Eat Your Heart Out): chapter outline (Hightower)

n.d.

34

1

Resource material: Corporations

1969-1972

34

2

Resource materials: Corporations

1973

34

3

Resource materials: Corporations

1973

34

4

Resource materials: Corporations

1974

34

5

Resource materials: Forbes Magazine

1974

35

1

Correspondence (Hightower)

1971

35

2

Correspondence (Hightower)

1972

35

3

Correspondence (Hightower)

1973

35

4

Correspondence (Hightower)

1973

35

5

Correspondence (Hightower)

1973

35

6

Correspondence (Hightower)

1974-1975