Louis Bromfield, Novelist and Agrarian Reformer. The Forgotten Author

"Considering his significant influence not only as a writer but also as a newspaper columnist, conservationist and propagandist of organic agricultural methods, the lack of biography on Bromfield created a gap in American cultural history - a gap that Ivan Scott's Bromfield has now filled. . . . Scott's book on Bromfield has the potential to become a classic. Scott analyzes Bromfield's writings and his political and social activities by putting them in the context of the crucial events of the first half of the twentieth century. . . . Scott's immense knowledge of European and American history makes this method valuable and appealing. . . . He builds his arguments on the basis of unsurpassed mastery of an enormous amount of materials: almost thirty of Bromfield's novels, countless notes and letters, and numerous newspaper articles that appeared in the United States and Europe, where Bromfield spent more than ten years." - Michael Jakobson