John Brown to Bob Dole

Movers and Shakers in Kansas History

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

449 kr

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Prominent Kansas historian Virgil Dean has gathered a distinguished team of writers - Thomas Isern and Craig Miner among them - who have crafted incisive portraits of twenty-seven notable men and women, including radical abolitionist John Brown; wheat king Theodore C. Henry; women's rights activist Clarina Nichols; William Allen White, the ""Sage of Emporia""; President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Esther Brown, who challenged segregation in public schools; political icon Bob Dole; Gordon Parks, photographer, filmmaker, and author of ""The Learning Tree""; and visionary environmentalist Wes Jackson.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-01-10
Mått161 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt571 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor422
FörlagUniversity Press of Kansas
ISBN9780700617234

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"A fine collection. Dean has assembled an all-star lineup and the [subjects] chosen for inclusion make up a broad range of interesting and significant characters who reflect a sense of the diversity of Kansas culture and the sweep of the state's history.... The chapters are uniformly well written and will whet readers' appetites for reading more deeply in Kansas biography." - Annals of Iowa "An engaging foray into Kansas history and a model anthology in style and format that adds significantly to the historiography of Kansas and the Great Plains." - South Dakota History "Miniature biographies of the prominent and near-prominent who have impacted Kansas history.... Executed flawlessly." - Kansas History "A readable, useful, concise commentary on, about, and for Kansans." - Western Historical Quarterly"