The Centennial Directory And Historical Souvenir February 1938
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Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author | : Library of Congress. Division of Documents |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1170 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : State government publications |
ISBN | : |
Carnival in the Countryside
Author | : Chris Rasmussen |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609383583 |
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the best-selling travel guide 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair’s founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair’s founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people’s desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise—not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In their effort to uplift rural life without going broke, the organizers of the Iowa State Fair debated the respectability of horse racing and gambling and struggled to find qualified livestock judges. Worried about the economic forces undermining rural families, they ran competitions to select the best babies and the “ideal” rural girl and boy while luring spectators with massive panoramas of earthquakes and fires, not to mention staged trainwrecks. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author | : Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1206 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : State government publications |
ISBN | : |
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
East of Eden
Author | : John Steinbeck |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2002-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1440631328 |
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Author | : American Academy in Rome |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture, Roman |
ISBN | : |