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Furrow And Us
Av Walter Thomas Jack, Zachary Michael Jack
Häftad, 2005
516 kr
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First published in 1946, Walter Thomas Jack's classic book of agricultural essays, The Furrow and Us, intensified the till versus no-till debate, called by Time magazine "the hottest farming argument since the tractor first challenged the horse." Hailed as "the answer" to Edward Faulkner's …
Plowman Sings
Häftad, 2008
641 kr
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Jay G. Sigmund stands as America's most forgotten Regionalist writers of the Jazz Age. Championed by Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, and Grant Wood, the Iowa writer/insurance man helped make his home state the epicenter of a national Regionalist Movement. The literary stir Sigmund created caused …
Participatory Sportswriting
An Anthology, 1870-1937
Häftad, 2008
560 kr
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Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory sportswriting collects 48 pieces from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis …
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings
Av Liberty Hyde Bailey, Zachary Michael Jack
Inbunden, 2008
373 kr
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"Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, …
Let There Be Pebble
A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf
Inbunden, 2011
415 kr
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It was "scary," Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. "It's not a golf course," sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, "it's a hellship." Golf writer Dan Jenkins once joked that the famed …
Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the Long March for Women's Rights
Häftad, 2020
491 kr
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In February 1913 young firebrand activist "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones defied convention and the doubts of better-known suffragists such as Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt to muster an unprecedented equal rights army. Jones and "Colonel" Ida Craft marched 250 miles at the head …
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings
Av Liberty Hyde Bailey, Zachary Michael Jack
Häftad, 2016
275 kr
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"Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, …
Haunt of Home
A Journey Through America's Heartland
Häftad, 2020
215 kr
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What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten …
Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly
The Populist Who Debunked Shakespeare and Found Atlantis
Inbunden, 2024
408 kr
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The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly sheds light on the inimitable life of a neglected figure in US political and literary history. The father of American Populism, lieutenant governor of Minnesota, People's Party candidate for vice president, popularizer of the Shakespeare authorship …
March of the Suffragettes
Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the March for Voting Rights
E-bok, 2019
191 kr
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March of the Suffragettes tells the forgotten, real-life story of "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who in the waning days of 1912 mustered and marched an all-women army nearly 200 miles to help win support for votes for women. General Jones, along with her good friends and accomplices "Colonel" …
Uncle Henry Wallace
Letters to Farm Families
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with U.S. Presidents from Teddy …
Midwest Farmer's Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
Av Zachary Michael Jack, Zachary Michael Kjack
Häftad, 2012
232 kr
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From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are …
Black Earth and Ivory Tower
New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
Av Zachary M. Jack, Zachary Michael Jack
Häftad, 2005
462 kr
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Heralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the influential agrarian anthology ""I'll Take My Stand"", Zachary M. Jack has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide their own twenty-first-century insights about life lived close to the land. In …
The Inanity of Music and Wings
Av Zachary Michael Jack, 1stworld Library
Häftad, 2005
317 kr
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Midwest Farmer's Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
E-bok, 2012
181 kr
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From yesterday''s gingham girls to today''s Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer''s Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America''s farm-reared daughters are …
Midwest Farmer's Daughter
In Search of an American Icon
E-bok, 2012
185 kr
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From yesterday''s gingham girls to today''s Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer''s Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America''s farm-reared daughters are …
Special Effects
Short Takes on Stylish Prose
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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Special Effects: Short Takes on Stylish Prose tackles the dilemma dedicated writers have faced for generations: how to make words on the page as compelling as images on the screen. Perfect for film buffs and TV enthusiasts who want to improve their writing, this innovative handbook reveals how …
Haunt of Home
A Journey through America’s Heartland
Ljudbok, 2020
291 kr
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What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourishes in many of the nation’s most far-flung and …
Inside the Ropes
Sportswriters Get Their Game on
Häftad, 2008
282 kr
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Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover—returning with …
