Minnesota Books

This is a very special book for anyone interested in history, especially those who had ancestors who passed through Minnesota. It's a collection of stories collected by the Daughters of the Americal Revolution, who felt it was important to record the memories of those individuals who helped settle the state before it was too late. It was originally published in the early 1900's, and this edition should be a reprint of it. The stories are presented pretty much in the words of the storytellers with little editing. Reading them gives a person some perspective into the many aspects of frontier life and the types of people who formed our nation.

On The Ballot In Louisiana: Running For President To Fight National Decay is the true story of an ordinary man from Minnesota who, without money or name recognition, dared to run for President. When The Domocratic National Committee removed him from the South Carolina ballot, he journeyed to Louisiana to campaign for five weeks, and garnered 3,161 votes for the state's 2004 Democratic primary, finishing fifth and beating two better-known candidates. Black-and-white photographs illustrate his story, which combines raw-guts determination with a humorous flair and perfectly captures the excitement of campaigning for president amid the Mardi Gras and bayou state. The message beneath the author's campaign, one of waking up and getting involved, resonates in the pages of this enjoyable tour de force of maverick politics.

From a true pioneer outdoorsman...I love Calvin's tales interspersed in his readings with some opinions tossed about about politics, economics, and the state of his future and now, our past...Just very well written from an original. His stories that he chats about in between are short and enjoyable. I love his work.

For anyone interested in the art of photo interpretation, immigration history, radical politics/unionism, and a history of the Mesabi Iron Range, I would heartedly recommend this book. The extensive bibliography and footnotes, alone, are worth the price of the book. Dr. Nemanic has given both the academic world and those interested in the Iron Range much to assimilate. Her interpretation of the interplay of radical politics and unionism and the changing significance of the July Fourth celebrations will challenge more traditional visions/interpretations. The Iron Rangers may be laconic but they certainly were and are not inactive.

This a great book from a great seller. I love it. The transaction was excellent. Delivery was one time.

This book is a collection of articles on logical positivism. You should consider the authors and table of content if you finnd it interesting. Mainly for specialists on logical positivism.

The Otter Tail Review does an outstanding job of recording distinctive, real voices from Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Particularly poignant are the stories of early hardship (teaching in a one-room schoolhouse at forty below, picking glacial rocks from a farm field), leavened by such images as a boatload of pastors' wives hanging their drenched undergarments on gooseberry bushes! It's also wonderful to see more work from Robert Bly, a master of our time. The stories are tastefully selected and carefully, even lovingly edited. Here's hoping that Mr. Rundquist will compile a Volume Two!

OUR FIRE SURVIVES THE STORM: A CHEROKEE LITERARY HISTORY uses the Chickamauga consciousness of resistance and Beloved Path of engagement to provide a different method of interpreting texts composed in English, revealing different nuances of Cherokee literary tradition in the process. With Daniel Health Justice's approach in hand, college-level students of Native American literature have a fine method of analyzing stories for strengths, purpose, and direction.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This privately published and beautifully presented 2-volume set includes one 220 fully illustrated volume telling the first-person history of the man who "Dayton's" of Minneapolis may be most known for. Volume II is a slipcase for four very large fold-out geneological charts.

The writing is lively and interesting and the story is well told and fully illustrated with family photos, illustrations and charts in color and black and white.

This is the history of an important family, one of the driving forces in the Midwest for the entirety of the 20th Century.

There's a lot of hilarity in this book ("Mommy,why is she wearing that eye-dropper in her ear?"). The grief for the loss of the four trees sneaks up on you between the lines.

I agree with a reviewer in Earth First! Journal who found Losure's attitude toward the protesters somewhat dismissive: she seems surprised to discover (near the end of the narrative) that, after all, they might have important point to make. However, I think that this rhetorical structure works in this case in the favor of the trees, if not the protesters themselves: Losure brings the skeptical reader along with her.

Like Eliot's Middlemarch, this book is both social satire and ethical touchstone. Ultimately, it has a Dickensian, panoramic quality that really transcends the genre of eco-journalism: while no one social group in the narrative has a monopoly on truth, Losure finds a real beauty in the sometimes clumsy, sometimes ugly Highway 55 conflict.