Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas

Name: Hayseeds, Moralizers, and Methodists The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas
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ISBN: 9780700603619

ISBN-10: 0700603611

ISBN-13: 9780700603619

Edition: 1988

Authors: Robert Smith Bader

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The tattered image of modern-day Kansas and how it got that way is the subject of this pioneering and wonderfully entertaining book. Robert Smith Bader traces the rise and fall of the state's reputation from the turn of the century--when it was a national leader in the two most prominent sociopolitical movements of the era, Progressivism and prohibition--through the Jazz Age--when Kansas came to epitomize strait-laced, fundamentalist values (H.L. Mencken proclaimed it the quintessential "cow state," chock-full of hayseeds, moralizers, and Methodists)--to today's consensus view of Kansas as drab and boring. The book concludes with a marvelous survey of recent popular culture and with a call…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 5/20/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.54" wide x 9.03" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English