John Brown to Bob Dole by Virgil W Dean

John Brown to Bob Dole by Virgil W Dean

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Presents 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; and, Gordon Parks.

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John Brown to Bob Dole by Virgil W Dean

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.
"A fine collectionDean 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"
VIRGIL W. DEAN is editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains and of Territorial Kansas Reader. He is Director for Publications at the Kansas State Historical Society and lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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ISBN 13 9780700617234
ISBN 10 070061723X
Titre John Brown to Bob Dole
Auteur Virgil W Dean
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Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur University Press of Kansas
Année de publication 2013-01-30
Nombre de pages 408
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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