Small-town dreams
Subtitle: Stories of Midwestern boys who shaped America
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lawrence, KS
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780700619498
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Midwestern small towns and the experience of place; title: Section one : Small towns in the crucible of change, 1890-1920.; title: Frederick Jackson Turner : frontier historian; title: William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan : battling for the soul of America; title: Henry Ford : the revolutionary as nostalgist; title: George Washington Carver and Oscar Micheaux : African American dreamers and doers; title: Section two : Embattled small towns during prosperity, Depression, and war, 1920-1945.; title: Sinclair Lewis : the man from Main Street; title: Carl Sandburg : the eternal seeker and people's poet; title: Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry : painting the American scene; title: Ernie Pyle : Hoosier vagabond and GIs' friend; title: Section three : Reverberations of the small-town myth, 1945-1965.; title: Alvin Hansen : South Dakota farm boy turned Keynesian prophet; title: Bob Feller : Iowa farm boy on the "Field of Dreams"; title: James Dean : the Indiana rebel without a cause; title: Meredith Willson : the music man from Mason City; title: Walt Disney : memories of Marceline and dreams of an ideal tomorrow; title: Section four : The lingering presence of the small town, 1965 to the present.; title: Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson : dancing and talking the night away; title: John Wooden : small-town values on the hardwood court; title: Ronald Reagan : small-town dreamer on the stage of history; title: Sam Walton : Main Street shopkeeper turned global behemoth; title: Coda : Small-town boys and the American dream