Wuthnow presents a lively portrait of the complexities and concerns of American agriculture, helping us better understand those who grow our food. In the Blood is an extremely ambitious book and a very good read. There is nothing else like it. No one else has so thoroughly presented farmers in their own words."--Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, author of Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago"In the Blood is a thorough and compelling look at farm life in America by the nation's top sociologist of culture. Wuthnow offers new conceptions of a crucial yet neglected institution."--Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University