We are Iowans First
Author: Iowa. Governor's Committee for Iowa's Future Growth
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 142
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Author: Iowa. Governor's Committee for Iowa's Future Growth
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chuy Renteria
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Published: 2018-06
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781732420601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntold stories from the American heartland of migration, belonging, and home.
Author: Michael Tackett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0544386396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Field of Dreams was only superficially about baseball. It was really about life. So is The Baseball Whisperer . . . with the added advantage of being all true.” —MLB.com From an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers—and men. Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl’s original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the Los Angeles ghetto who would one day become a beloved Hall-of-Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith. The Baseball Whisperer traces the “deeply engrossing” story (Booklist, starred review) of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A’s baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players. In the process, he taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. More than a book about ballplayers in the nation’s agricultural heartland, The Baseball Whisperer is the story of a coach who put character and dedication first, reminding us of the best, purest form of baseball excellence. “Mike Tackett, talented journalist and baseball lover, has hit the sweet spot of the bat with his first book. The Baseball Whisperer takes one coach and one small Iowa town and illuminates both a sport and the human spirit.” —David Maraniss, New York Times-bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered
Author: David P. Redlawsk
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0226706966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president. Why Iowa? offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from how the Iowa caucuses work and what motivates the candidates’ campaigns, to participation and turnout, as well as the lingering effects that the campaigning had on Iowa voters. Demonstrating how “what happens in Iowa” truly reverberates throughout the country, five-time Iowa precinct caucus chair David P. Redlawsk and his coauthors take us on an inside tour of one of the most media-saturated and speculated-about campaign events in American politics. Considering whether a sequential primary system, in which early, smaller states such as Iowa and New Hampshire have such a tremendous impact is fair or beneficial to the country as a whole, the authors here demonstrate that not only is the impact warranted, but it also reveals a great deal about informational elements of the campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this sequential system does confer huge benefits on the nominating process while Iowa’s particularly well-designed caucus system—extensively explored here for the first time—brings candidates’ arguments, strengths, and weaknesses into the open and under the media’s lens.
Author: Chuck Offenburger
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new collection of essays by the witty Iowan journalist takes the reader from Sam's Barber Shop in Audubon to the Middle East to interview Persian Gulf soldiers from Iowa. By the author of Babe: An Iowa Legend.
Author: Zach Wahls
Publisher: Avery
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1592407633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn advocate and son of same-gender parents recounts his famed address to the Iowa House of Representatives on civil unions, and describes his positive experiences of growing up in an alternative family in spite of prejudice.
Author: Iowa. Governor's Committee for Iowa's Future Growth
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 1060
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pioneer Lawmakers' Association of Iowa
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2022-12-28
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1609388747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.