The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States 1st edition

?Neal Peirce has done it again. The Great Plains States of America is a special dividend?a superb companion for those who have enjoyed his Megastates, Mountain States, and Pacific States. It is sensitive, scholarly, and written with a breathtaking pace?a masterful orchestration of politics, culture, biography, and subtleties of the spirit that have characterized the Midwest.? ?Malcolm Moos, President, the University of Minnesota

West of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies, stretching from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, lie the nine states of level prairie and rolling high plains that constitute the very heart of the American continent. Here is the story of those states in our times, related by Neal Peirce as part of his sensitive account of people, politics, and power in the U. S. A. today.