Harvest of Dissent: The National Farmers Union and the Early Cold War

In the early years of the Cold War, one voice of dissent regarding United States foreign policy came from an unexpected source. The National Farmers Union criticized the Truman administration for what it saw as an advancement of American imperialism, a denial of the prerogatives of other nations in world affairs, and an inaccurate view of Soviet communism's threat to world peace.

Bruce Field here explores the people and events of a little-studied episode in American history by describing how...