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Wisconsin: A History
Contributor(s): Current, Richard Nelson (Author)
ISBN: 0393336425     ISBN-13: 9780393336429
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $21.80  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: July 1977
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography
- History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General
Dewey: 977.5
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.73 lbs) 260 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Cultural Region - Upper Midwest
 
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Publisher Description:
A haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early explorers and gangsters to latter-day sports heroes and cheeseheads.Both the Ringling Brothers' World's Greatest Shows and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth originated in Wisconsin, along with the typewriter, Johnson's Wax, and the first automatic assembly line. Wisconsin inventors contributed to the mechanization of American farms by developing harvesters, reapers, and other machinery. Sen. Robert M. (Fighting Bob) La Follette brought progressive reform to the state; a few decades later another Wisconsin native, Joseph McCarthy, revealed his agenda as a U.S. senator.To football fans, the capital of Wisconsin is Green Bay, where in 1919 Earl Louis Lambeau organized the Packers. Even during its fifteen-year losing streak, Green Bay fans sustained their fanatical devotion to the team.Fast-paced and entertaining, Current's history chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the Wisconsin Idea of efficient state government to ski-tows and speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of American culture.

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