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John E. Miller Small-Town Dreams (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Small-Town Dreams
- Title
- Small-Town Dreams
- Subtitle
- Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
- EAN
- 9780700619498
- ISBN
- 9780700619498
- Genre
- Biography
- Topic
- Home Garden & Pets
- Release Date
- 21/02/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 456g
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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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, as entrepreneurs and teachers like Henry Ford, George Washington Carver and Walt Disney; artists and entertainers like Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Carl Sandburg and Johnny Carson; political figures like William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan and Ronald Reagan; and athletes like Bob Feller and John Wooden by turns engender and illustrate the extraordinary cultural shifts that have transformed the Midwest and through the Midwest, the nation - and the world. Many of these men are familiar, icons even - Ford and Reagan, certainly, Ernie Pyle, Sinclair Lewis, James Dean and Lawrence Welk - and others, like artists Oscar Micheaux and John Steuart Curry, economist Alvin Hansen and composer Meredith Willson, less so. But in their stories, as John E. Miller tells them, all appear in a new light, unique in their backgrounds and accomplishments, united only in the way their lives reveal the persisting, shaping power of place and particularly the Midwest, on the cultural imagination and national consciousness. In a thoroughly engaging style Miller introduces us to the small-town Midwestern boys who became these all-American characters, privileging us with insights that pierce the public images of politicians and businessmen, thinkers and entertainers alike. From the smell of the farm, the sounds and silences of hamlets and county seats, the schoolyard athletics and classroom instruction and theatrical performance, we follow these men to their moments of inspiration, innovation and fame, observing the workings of the small-town past in their very different relationships with the larger world. Their stories reveal in an intimate way how profoundly childhood experiences shape personal identity and how deeply place figures in the mapping of thought, belief, ambition and life's course.
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University Press of Kansas
ISBN-13
9780700619498
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201541153
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
456g
Additional Product Features
Topic
Local History
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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