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Madison's sparkling new history tells the stories of these Hoosiers, offering an invigorating view of one of America's distinctive states and the long and fascinating journey of its people.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49616495640849,"sku":"CIN0253013089VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676658213137,"sku":"CIN0253013089G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253013089.jpg?v=1750908996"},{"product_id":"indiana-way-book-james-h-madison-9780253206091","title":"The Indiana Way","description":"\"This is a splendid example of how to write well balanced, highly readable state history.\" —The Old Northwest  \"Madison has succeeded as have few other authors of state histories in blending modern scholarly concerns with the traditional narrative historiography of his state. This book is in many ways a model state history.\" —Choice  \"Neither too detailed and provincial, nor too broad and comparative, The Indiana Way adopts an integrated analytical approach, but also includes some narrative and biography.\" —Journal of American History","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031246672145,"sku":"CIN025320609XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52500387922193,"sku":"CIN025320609XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53260080185617,"sku":"GOR014840030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/025320609X.jpg?v=1763222069"},{"product_id":"slinging-doughnuts-for-the-boys-book-james-h-madison-9780253350473","title":"Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys","description":"Elizabeth Richardson was a Red Cross volunteer who worked as a Clubmobile hostess during World War II until her death in a plane crash in July 1945. Her job was to provide free doughnuts and coffee, cigarettes and gum to American soldiers on duty in England, and later in France. More importantly, she and her colleagues provided a slice of home. They were American girls with whom soldiers could talk, flirt, dance, and perhaps find companionship. For the most part, the job was not hazardous - except when V-1 rockets rained down on London - but it required physical endurance as well as the honed skills of a counselor. Liz Richardson was a witty writer and astute observer. Her letters and diaries reveal an intelligent, independent, and personable woman. In his commentary, James H. Madison provides information about her life, the activities of the Red Cross Clubmobiles, and the war. This book is an exceptional window into a past that is all too quickly fading from memory.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50960381706513,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50960382034193,"sku":"CIN0253350476VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51913081389329,"sku":"CIN0253350476G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253350476.jpg?v=1751070752"},{"product_id":"heartland-book-james-h-madison-9780253205766","title":"Heartland","description":"\" . . . an impressive collection of essays . . . gives as clear a picture of the Midwest as a whole as one is likely to get.\" —Journal of American History  \" . . . excellent insight into how and why the midwest ticks so well in a unique beat of its own.\" —South Bend Tribune  \"[Madison] can take a bow for a job well done.\" —Indianapolis News  \"I found Heartland to be a treasure. Had I turned a dog-ear each time I read something worth remembering, the book would be in tatters. . . . a wonderful companion.\" —Myron A. Marty, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  \"An ambitious book, full of insight, which provides a useful first step in trying to understand that elusive entity—the Midwest.\" —Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Minnesota History  \" . . . strong and interestingly written . . . \" —Indianapolis Star  \" . . . should be of interest to the serious reader of history who is curious about the Midwest, its origins, its development and its constituent states.\" —Northwest Ohio Quarterly  \" . . . these essays are the stuff of excellent and readable intellectual history . . . \" —History  \" . . . a successful achievement. Heartland is an enjoyable book . . . \" —Great Plains Quarterly  \"Because this book has the capacity to affect one's thinking, it deserves to be read. It may even persuade some readers to discard the term Middle West.\" —Richard S. Kirkendall, Gateway Heritage  \"Heartland is an excellent presentation, in summary, of the history and background of the 12 Midwestern states.\" —Journal of the West  To the cultural czars of the two coasts, America's heartland is frequently depicted as an amorphous, undifferentiated mass of land and people. 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