"Much of the material is controversial, but if controversy means the stimulation of thought and ideas, so much the better. It is only thus that the citizens of a republic may protect themselves from the evils threatening them from within their borders as well as those which threaten from beyond."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersNovelists from the United StatesPeople from OhioAgronomistsCornell University alumni
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"Author's Note" (1953) in A New Pattern for a Tired World (1954), p. xxv
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Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield (27 December 1896 – 18 March 1956) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.
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