An important proletarian novel set in the world of cotton-growing tenant farmers in Texas. From his earliest years, Johnny Carr had been aware of King Cotton's strangle hold over those he loved, and when, at the age of eleven, Fate made him "the man of the family," he entered into a battle with the enemy that was to occupy him for the whole of life.
There is a wistful quality in Johnny's early struggles, in his first success in settling his parents on a farm of their own. But in his beautiful love fora good woman, his devotion to a cause which was to change a whole state-full of ne'er-do-well farmers into a prosperous community, there is courage and inspiration. Here for the first time is told the fight of the Texas cotton-growers to secure for themselves their fair share of the fruits of their labor.
