A haven for summer tourists and winter sport enthusiasts, Wisconsin
is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of
cheese and dairy products. Richard Nelson Current's compact history
reveals the colorful past of America's Dairyland, from early
explorers and gangsters to sports heroes and cheeseheads. Both the
Ringling Brothers' "World's Greatest Shows" and Barnum &
Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" originated in Wisconsin, along
with the typewriter, Johnson's Wax, and the first automatic
assembly line (for manufacturing automobile frames). Wisconsin
inventors contributed to the mechanization of American farms by
developing harvesters, reapers, cultivators, threshers, and other
machinery. Sen. Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette brought
progressive reform to the state; a few decades later another
Wisconsin native, Joseph McCarthy, revealed his agenda as a U.S.
senator. The Gideons, who place Bibles in hotel room nightstands,
got their start in Wisconsin, and the state's factories produced
most of the 107 steam shovels that dug the Panama Canal. Even
before American Motors in Kenosha became Wisconsin's largest
employer, Wisconsinites were responsible for such car-related
developments as the first four-wheel-drive vehicle and an early
tire-patching kit. To football fans, the capital of Wisconsin is
Green Bay, where in 1919 Earl Louis Lambeau organized the Packers.
Even during the team's fifteen-year losing streak, Green Bay
consisted, as one reporter observed, of "nearly 50,000 wild-eyed
maniacs [who] know more about football than any other 50,000 people
on the face of the earth." Fast-paced and entertaining, Current's
history chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the
"Wisconsin Idea" of efficient state government to ski-tows and
speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of
American culture.
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