Books
June, 1979
Merchants of Grain (Viking), by Dan Morgan, is the first investigative report published in our time that tries to tell the complete story of "the only resource in the world that is even more central to modern civilization than oil." Books about the grain trade may not seem important to some people today, but it is only a matter of time (and weather and politics and population) before we will all have to give the subject more serious study. When grain supplies are understood to be as pr...