John Brown to Bob Dole

Edited by Virgil W. Dean

$29.95 ~ Hardcover ~ Book No. 61429X

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 writersThomas Isern, Craig Miner, and otherswho have crafted incisive portraits of 27 notable men and women, covering 150 years of Kansas and American history.

VIRGIL W. DEAN is director for publications at the Kansas State Historical Society and editor of the journal Kansas History. He also edited the volume Territorial Kansas Reader and is coauthor of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography. CONTRIBUTORS: Virgil W. Dean, Jonathan Earle, Rebecca Edwards, Nicole Etcheson, Peter Fearon, H. Roger Grant, K. Allen Greiner, Sally F. Griffith, M. H. Hoeflich, Jim Hoy, Thomas D. Isern, Bruce R. Kahler, Milton S. Katz, Burdett Loomis, Sally M. Miller, Timothy Miller, Craig Miner, Brian Moline, Rita G. Napier, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, William B. Pickett, Leo P. Ribuffo, Norman E. Saul, James E. Sherow, Marjorie Swann, John Edgar Tidwell, William M. Tsutsui