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The Good Country

A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900
  • Jon K. Lauck
2022
The University of Oklahoma Press

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  • Illustration of a man with a shovel working a farm; the background shows scenes of family and communal life
    Book Review

    Deep States

    The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.
    by Wilfred M. McClay via Claremont Review of Books on May 31, 2023
  • Map of Iowa and a drawing of a factory processing corn.
    Book Review

    Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest

    Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?
    by Phil Christman via The New Republic on February 22, 2023
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