The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution By: Stephen Heyman [Audiobook]

Author: Stephen Heyman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize-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, Malabar, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popularize 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 entertained aristocrats, movie stars, flower breeders, and writers of all stripes. Millions savored his novels, which were turned into Broadway plays and Hollywood blockbusters, yet Bromfield’s greatest passion was the soil. In 1938, Bromfield returned to Ohio to transform 600 badly eroded acres into a thriving cooperative farm, which became a mecca for agricultural pioneers and a country retreat for celebrities.

This sweeping biography unearths a lost icon of American culture, a fascinating, hilarious and unclassifiable character who – between writing and plowing – also dabbled in global politics and high society.

General Information
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 Title:                  The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution
 Author:                 Stephen Heyman
 Read By:                Robertson Dean
 Copyright:              2020
 Audiobook Copyright:    2020
 Genre:                  Biography & Autobiography / Technology / Food
 Publisher:              HighBridge
 Abridged:               No
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 Media:                  Digital
 Source:                 Overdrive MP3
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Publisher's Summary
Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and 
a Pulitzer Prize-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, Malabar, would inspire America's first generation 
of organic farmers and popularize 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 entertained 
aristocrats, movie stars, flower breeders, and writers of all stripes. 
Millions savored his novels, which were turned into Broadway plays and 
Hollywood blockbusters, yet Bromfield's greatest passion was the soil. 
In 1938, Bromfield returned to Ohio to transform 600 badly eroded acres 
into a thriving cooperative farm, which became a mecca for agricultural 
pioneers and a country retreat for celebrities.
This sweeping biography unearths a lost icon of American culture, a 
fascinating, hilarious and unclassifiable character who - between writing 
and plowing - also dabbled in global politics and high society.
2020 Stephen Heyman (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books-

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