From radical abolitionist John Brown to presidential candidate Bob
Dole to visionary environmentalist Wes Jackson, Kansas history is
bursting with fascinating stories of individuals who made a
difference to the nation and whose lives reveal much about our
collective past. Prominent Kansas historian Virgil Dean has
gathered a distinguished team of writers - Thomas Isern, Craig
Miner, and others - who have crafted incisive portraits of 27
notable men and women, covering 150 years of Kansas and American
history. Here are agitators who moved their fellow citizens to
action over political, social, and economic problems: not only John
Brown, but also proslavery agitator William H. Russell; Mary
Elizabeth Lease, lecturer for the Farmers' Alliance and Populist
Party; Gerald B. Winrod, a.k.a. the ""Jayhawk Hitler""; and Esther
Brown, who challenged segregation in public schools. Here, too, are
motivators, like women's rights activist Clarina I. H. Nichols;
William Allen White, the ""Sage of Emporia""; and favorite sons
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bob Dole. Then there are the innovators,
from trailblazers like Joseph G. McCoy, who changed the face of the
cattle industry, and wheat king Theodore C. Henry to Wes Jackson, a
pioneer in the sustainable agriculture movement, and the
multitalented Gordon Parks, photographer, filmmaker, and author of
""The Learning Tree."" Reformers and preachers, publishers and
artists, these fascinating personalities are brought vividly back
to life by Dean and his fellow authors. They offer a fresh and
engaging look at many of the important themes of Kansas history -
especially the state's identification with some of the great
radical movements, including abolitionism, populism, and civil
rights - and ultimately recapture the true spirit of Kansas and its
meaning for the rest of the nation.
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