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Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
John E. Miller
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Description for Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
Hardcover. In a thoroughly engaging style John Miller introduces us to the small-town Midwestern boys who dreamed the America we know today and who made it real; from Frederick Jackson Turner and George Washington Carver to Henry Ford and Sam Walton. Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 43. Weight in Grams: 953.
We live these days in a virtual nation of cities and celebrities, dreaming a small-town America rendered ever stranger by purveyors of nostalgia and dark visionaries from Sherwood Anderson to David Lynch. And yet it is the small town, that world of local character and neighbourhood lore, that dreamed the America we know today - and the small-town boy, like those whose stories this book tells, who made it real.
In these life-stories, beginning in 1890 with frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner and moving up to the present with global shopkeeper Sam Walton, a history of middle America unfolds, ... Read more
We live these days in a virtual nation of cities and celebrities, dreaming a small-town America rendered ever stranger by purveyors of nostalgia and dark visionaries from Sherwood Anderson to David Lynch. And yet it is the small town, that world of local character and neighbourhood lore, that dreamed the America we know today - and the small-town boy, like those whose stories this book tells, who made it real.
In these life-stories, beginning in 1890 with frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner and moving up to the present with global shopkeeper Sam Walton, a history of middle America unfolds, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619498
SKU
V9780700619498
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-22
About John E. Miller
John E. Miller’s many books include Governor Philip F. La Follette, the Wisconsin Progressives, and the New Deal and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet.
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