Field Man: The Chronicle of a Bank Farm Manager in the 1940s.

Field Man: The Chronicle of a Bank Farm Manager in the 1940s This is certainly not a book to cuddle up with on a rainy day. It is marginally useful, and hopelessly dull. Harold Clingerman supervised farms as a field man for the U.S. National Bank of Omaha. The bank, as had hundreds of others, came to own an extensive amount of farm property through foreclosures during the Great Depression. To maintain those properties until they could be sold, banks worked out lease arrangements with tenants. Clingerman rode his circuit from 1941 to 1948, visiting each farm at least once a month to see to the upkeep of the properties.

Replete with reconstructed conversations, …