{"product_id":"2940013880023","title":"Power And Tender","description":"With his beribboned uniform, brass buttons, sleeve bands and gold embroidered hat, his uncle was a daring revelation to Ben. \u003cbr\u003eHis sea stories spoke of people afar and showed young Ben something the boy did not know about himself. Ben’s heart began to sing. \u003cbr\u003e“I want to be a pilot like you when \u003cbr\u003eI grow up.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1920 Ben Alton was a supreme boatman of Virginia, but he still dreamed of becoming a coastal pilot. He knew that his own lineage through the preceding centuries narrowed his \u003cbr\u003echances, though. Pilot appointments went to the sons of pilots, men who had never stooped their backs to scratch out a living in the soil. When Ben qualified to apply for a federal appointment, he was ecstatic, and he scored perfectly on the theory examination. When he was disqualified on the physical, Ben was devastated. Fate had made the choice \u003cbr\u003ebetween the sea and the soil for him.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe United States had lived in its own world for more than a century after the Revolution, but in the year 1910 the Panama Canal opened the floodgates of international trade rights for foreign competition in armament and commerce. Political polices changed and corporations, not agriculture, began to be favored. A financial \u003cbr\u003eand cultural decline began for grass roots agronomy. Power And Tender is authentic historical fiction at its best as veteran author Margret Russell tells of one man’s journey through the turbulent era that set the stage for a society that today has shifted so dramatically from its agricultural roots in the nineteenth century.","brand":"Outskirts Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163748221168,"sku":"2940013880023","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013880023_p0.jpg?v=1763596552","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013880023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}