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Son of Southern Illinois

Author : Carl Walworth
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933920X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Son of Southern Illinois written by Carl Walworth and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life of principles, service, and faith This first biography of Glenn Poshard traces the life of a young man who rose from rural poverty in Southern Illinois to become a United States congressman and president of the Southern Illinois University system. This profound portrait unveils a life and career dedicated to making higher education affordable and improving the quality of life for the community of Southern Illinois. Beginning with his childhood in a two-room home near Herald, Illinois and the early, tragic loss of his sister, this biography navigates Poshard’s service in the military, his time as a state senator and United States congressman, his run for governor, his years at Southern Illinois University, and the establishment of the Poshard Foundation for Abused Children. Intimacies of his personal life are disclosed, such as his struggles with and treatment for depression, his passion for education, and the lasting bonds he formed with his teachers. His unpopular decision to refuse PAC donations is also highlighted, along with the work that went into sponsoring the Illinois Wilderness Act, and his relationship with civil rights activist John Lewis. Glenn Poshard’s efforts for the Wilderness Act designated Southern Illinois’s famous Garden of the Gods as a National Wilderness Preservation System, which continues to attract visitors from around the world. Poshard’s path from poverty was riddled with hardship, but his perseverance and family values ultimately allowed for longstanding personal and civic growth. From an admirable work ethic to a steadfast commitment to problem-solving, this biography illuminates the life and accomplishments of an impressive and generous leader.

Son of Southern Illinois

Author : Carl Walworth
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809339188
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Son of Southern Illinois written by Carl Walworth and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first biography of Glenn Poshard traces the life of a young man who rose from rural poverty in Southern Illinois to become a United States congressman and president of the Southern Illinois University system. This profound portrait unveils a life and career dedicated to making higher education affordable and improving the quality of life for the community of Southern Illinois"--

Always of Home

Author : Edgar A. Imhoff
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809318537
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Always of Home written by Edgar A. Imhoff and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allen Imhoff renders a series of touching, colorful vignettes about growing up in southern Illinois during the Great Depression. He writes poignantly of his family and their struggles (including his father's exhausting but successful effort at self-education) as he revisits his early childhood years in the country and his eventual move to the town of Murphysboro, where he encountered school bullies, outstanding teachers, first love, World War II, and adolescence. Imhoff contrasts these memories of his youth with events, incidents, and thoughts from his more recent past. While writing a government check with six figures to the left of the decimal, he remembers how his mother once scrounged together thirty cents so Imhoff and his brother and sister could go to the circus with their classmates. Listening to President Carter give a speech in the Rose Garden reminds him of the contrasting elocutionary style of the Reverend William Boatman, the pastor at his country church, which was built by Imhoff's great-great-grandfather and others. Through such contrasts, Imhoff not only paints a loving picture of his past, he also comments on the alienation and emptiness that mark many lives in the United States, especially those of modern nomads. Imhoff has himself become a nomad, living far from the land of his birth, enjoying a successful and rewarding career. Yet he is drawn repeatedly to his past, his family, his childhood home, and the intricate combination of events, attitudes, values, and loyalties that influenced and molded him.

Lake Sara, the Hidden Jewel in America's Heartland

Author : John M. "Jack" Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692735763
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Lake Sara, the Hidden Jewel in America's Heartland written by John M. "Jack" Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861

Author : Daniel Harmon Brush
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809335484
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861 written by Daniel Harmon Brush and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up with Southern Illinois is the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.

Abner Abney

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Abner Abney written by and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pembroke

Author : David M. Baron
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809335026
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Pembroke written by David M. Baron and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pembroke explores the cultural, economic, legal, political, and environmental history of Pembroke, Illinois--one of the largest rural, black communities north of the Mason-Dixon Line and one of the poorest places in the nation.

The Growing Season

Author : Sarah Frey
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0593129415
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Growing Season written by Sarah Frey and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gutsy success story” (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman’s journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loves The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city—or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation’s largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey has been dubbed “America’s Pumpkin Queen” by the national press. The Growing Season tells the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.

A History of Southern Illinois

Author : George Washington Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A History of Southern Illinois written by George Washington Smith and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

LIFE

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-06-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Giant in the Shadows

Author : Jason Emerson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809330555
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Giant in the Shadows written by Jason Emerson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giant in the Shadows is the definitive biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the oldest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their only child to live past age eighteen. Emerson, after nearly ten years of research, draws upon previously unavailable materials to cover Robert Lincoln's entire life in detail.

Inside the Shelton Gang

Author : Ruthie Shelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970798428
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Shelton Gang written by Ruthie Shelton and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Shelton Gang tells the true story of what happens when a father’s wall of secrets begin to crumble and a family’s lost heritage of violence erupts from the front pages of history. For daughter Ruthie it’s a discovery that will forever change her life as she learns what it meant to be a Shelton in the days of Prohibition and the decades following, to be a member of a crime family that rivaled Al Capone’s for control of Illinois.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316090522
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again written by David Foster Wallace and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

The Trail of Tears Through Southern Illinois

Author : Darrell Latch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Trail of Tears Through Southern Illinois written by Darrell Latch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abandoned in the Heartland

Author : Jennifer Hamer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950178
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in the Heartland written by Jennifer Hamer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.

The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois

Author : Milo Erwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989178105
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois written by Milo Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois covering the deadly family feuds and Ku Klux Klan activities during the decade following the Civil War that took place in the heart of Southern Illinois, particularly focused in the counties of Franklin, Jackson and Williamson. Milo Erwin wrote the first major account of the Vendetta during its immediate aftermath in 1876 as part of his History of Williamson County, Illinois. Now, Jon Musgrave takes Erwin's account and expands upon it with additional material from surrounding counties and further research into the characters who left such a mark on the region.

Ramblin' on My Mind

Author : David Evans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091124
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ramblin' on My Mind written by David Evans and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nicknames; and on lyric themes of disillusionment. Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.