Iowa: The Definitive Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1888160381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 542 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Iowa: The Definitive Collection Purchased this book as a gift for my husband. He love it.He grew up in Iowa so there are alot of memories for himin the book.. Sure don't know the history of Iowa! Janet M. Wall There is only one town/city in the world by the name of Oelwein and they do not list it. It has a lot of history along with it's name, but included others that don't come near the history as that one.
here is Iowa and its literary grist, from Black Hawk to Ruth Suckow, Ted Kooser, and Herbert Hoover; from O Brien County, Mechanicsville, Buxton, and the sluggish Nishnabotna River; a Hawkeye State smorgasbord of rich black soil that germinated so many fine writers --Drake Hokanson
Between these covers, world-famous sons and daughters of Iowa, including Carrie Chapman Catt, Bob Feller, Susan Glaspell, Herbert Hoover, Ted Kooser, Aldo Leopold, Glenn Miller, Wallace Stegner, Henry Wallace, Grant Wood, and many others join a chorus of forgotten or neglected native greats to tell the story of their home state as only Iowans can tell it. Perfect fodder for Iowa history and literature classes, book clubs, civic organizations, museums, libraries, and visitor centers across the Land Between Two Rivers, Iowa, the Definitive Collection offers a first-of-its-kind, popular documentary history su
. A former Iowa public librarian and newspaper section editor, Zachary now teaches courses in writing, rural and urban history, and place studies at North Central College, and continues to call home his eastern Iowa farm. A regular columnist for Iowa Source, a reviewer for the Annals of Iowa, and the found