1940: Journal of a Midwestern Town, Story of an Era

ISBN-10: 1541261526
ISBN-13: 9781541261525
Series: 1940
Category: Minneota (Minn.)
Pages: 668
Language: English
Published: 2017-01-27
Author: Dana Yost

Description

Called a "tour de force" by historian Joseph Amato, the book is a history of the rural Midwest in 1940, a pivotal year in history between the Great Depression and World War II. Local, regional and national history - told through the perspective of a small Minnesota town and its people. The book is, in Amato's words, "Truly alive to one place during one year. Many people, classes and cultures, amply and intelligently unified....proving one place is many places, one time joins many lives and times. History here benefits from a journalist."