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• W4230481775 abstract "112 The Michigan Historical Review exciting possibilities for further study of the region as well as the larger processes that contributed to the strike. Community in Conflict provides a comprehensive treatment of the copper strike and opportunities for further study in such fields as women’s participation in labor disputes, community development in remote sites of industrial production, the process of national and international work-related migration, and the formation of national unions and working class consciousness in early twentieth century America. Shannon R Kirkwood Central Michigan University John E. Miller. Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2014. Pp. 528. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $29.95. Small-Town Dreams challenges a historical bias that John E. Miller says has shortchanged small-town America in general, and Midwestern small towns in particular. The last century’s transformation of America into the world’s preeminent urban, industrial society, he argues, has obscured the reality that the vision that produced modern urban America was born in the streets of those small towns and the rural communities that surrounded them. His approach of assembling twenty-two short biographies of smalltown Midwestern boys who grew up to define American society and culture during the twentieth century is compelling in its own right. Starting with Frederick Jackson Turner, whose historical analysis of the frontier influenced several generations of American historians, Miller leads the reader through the lives of such varied cultural icons as Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, Carl Sandburg, James Dean, Bob Feller, Walt Disney, Lawrence Welk, Johnny Carson, Ronald Reagan and Sam Walton. The list of names alone is a prima facie case for his thesis that historians have not given small Midwestern towns the attention they deserve. But Miller’s undertaking is more ambitious than that. In 1900, he points out, 70 percent of Americans lived in small towns or rural areas. By 2000, 80 percent of Americans were city dwellers. That shift has not only disconnected us increasingly from our neighbors, but often from the places we live. The book, therefore, “is also an effort to comment on and reassert the importance of place in people’s lives” (p. 4). Book Reviews 113 Small-Town Dreams is a good beginning. The stories are well told and engagingly written, and the notion of exploring the connection between America’s small-town past and its urban present is well worthwhile. But a nagging irony crops up in the book’s subtitle—Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America—and never quite goes away. Why only boys? Where are the Midwestern girls? Miller’s explanation is brief, unsatisfying, and actually rather puzzling given that his theoretical discussions include references to a variety of women writers and that he is the author of three books on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wilder could be the poster child for Miller’s argument. In his fourteen-page introduction, Miller basically shrugs off the omission of women with a single slender paragraph that boils down to the need “to focus my resources.” But while it is true that no single book could fully address all aspects of the subject, and every author is forced to make difficult choices, this collection of minibiographies would have benefitted from being more inclusive—if not in number, at least in range. It would have been nice to see Wilder added to the mix, or perhaps Jane Addams, or Georgia O’Keefe, or Judy Garland, or Anna Arnold Hedgeman, or Martha Griffiths, or Edna Ferber. While it is easy to make the case for just the men—and including some of those women without increasing the total number of biographies would have meant replacing a few of the men—it is even easier to see that the “small-town experience” Miller extolls would not have been much of an experience without the women. And both reader and small towns would benefit from recognizing those women. Let us hope Miller is already planning volume two. Stephen A. Jones Central Michigan University Erik M. Redix. The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2014. Pp. 284. Bibliography. Index..." @default.
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