North Star Country explores country stores and county fairs, labor unions and dusty roads traveled by peddlers and truck drivers, and farms where families toil. Written in 1945 by acclaimed activist and writer Meridel Le Sueur, this unconventional...
An intensely personal work written in lyrical, flowing prose-poetry, the book at once combines a daughter's love with a family heritage of commitment to political and social change...It is a folk-history of midwestern radicalism."--Larry Reme...
Meridel Le Sueur's work stands, urgent and unique, at that bloody crossroads where politics and culture meet. -- Paul Lauter, Trinity College.
Meridel Le Sueur was born into a socialist family in 1900 and lived until 1996, spending most of her life in the Middle West. Her stunning and eloquent works include short stories, novels, popular histories, books for children, poetry, and memoir. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, Le Sueur regained prominence during the rise of the feminist movement in the 1970s.