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Total Pages : 1168 pages
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Download or read book Southwest Iowa's Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Iowa Heritage Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hudson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297248
Total Pages : 609 pages
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Download or read book The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa written by David Hudson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation’s affairs. Iowa’s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject’s name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it. From Dudley Warren Adams, fruit grower and Grange leader, to the Younker brothers, founders of one of Iowa’s most successful department stores, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is peopled with the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State. The histories contained in this essential reference work should be eagerly read by anyone who cares about Iowa and its citizens. Entries include Cap Anson, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, William Carpenter, Philip Greeley Clapp, Gardner Cowles Sr., Samuel Ryan Curtis, Jay Norwood Darling, Grenville Dodge, Julien Dubuque, August S. Duesenberg, Paul Engle, Phyllis L. Propp Fowle, George Gallup, Hamlin Garland, Susan Glaspell, Josiah Grinnell, Charles Hearst, Josephine Herbst, Herbert Hoover, Inkpaduta, Louis Jolliet, MacKinlay Kantor, Keokuk, Aldo Leopold, John L. Lewis, Marquette, Elmer Maytag, Christian Metz, Bertha Shambaugh, Ruth Suckow, Billy Sunday, Henry Wallace, and Grant Wood. Excerpt from the entry on: Gallup, George Horace (November 19, 1901–July 26, 1984)—founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, better known as the Gallup Poll, whose name was synonymous with public opinion polling around the world—was born in Jefferson, Iowa. . . . . A New Yorker article would later speculate that it was Gallup’s background in “utterly normal Iowa” that enabled him to find “nothing odd in the idea that one man might represent, statistically, ten thousand or more of his own kind.” . . . In 1935 Gallup partnered with Harry Anderson to found the American Institute of Public Opinion, based in Princeton, New Jersey, an opinion polling firm that included a syndicated newspaper column called “America Speaks.” The reputation of the organization was made when Gallup publicly challenged the polling techniques of The Literary Digest, the best-known political straw poll of the day. Calculating that the Digest would wrongly predict that Kansas Republican Alf Landon would win the presidential election, Gallup offered newspapers a money-back guarantee if his prediction that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win wasn’t more accurate. Gallup believed that public opinion polls served an important function in a democracy: “If govern¬ment is supposed to be based on the will of the people, somebody ought to go and find what that will is,” Gallup explained.
Author : Leland L. Sage
Publisher : Iowa State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813807164
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Iowa written by Leland L. Sage and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper reprint of the 1974 original.
Author : Stephen M. Avella
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814687938
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Catholic Church in Southwest Iowa written by Stephen M. Avella and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the diocese to commemorate its centenary, this is the first book-length study of the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. Formally established in 1911, the Diocese of Des Moines built on the foundations laid by earlier generations of missionaries, religious women, priests, and bishops to provide a gathering point for the scattered Catholic population of southwest Iowa. This book weaves together the various stories of religious and lay members in the forging of a visible religious presence in the region. Influential priests of the diocese included Monsignor Luigi Ligutti, who became a renowned advocate of rural life, and Bishop Maurice Dingman, who took on sometimes controversial social and political issues. In October 1979, the diocese hosted Pope John Paul II for a short but memorable visit, which was the largest religious gathering in Iowa’s history.
Author : Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Iowa
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Southwestern Iowa Guide written by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Author : Lelan Livingston Sage
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Download or read book A history of Iowa written by Lelan Livingston Sage and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Internal Revenue Service
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Total Pages : 1148 pages
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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1068 pages
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Download or read book The History of Polk County, Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
