A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

by Helen L. Laird
A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

by Helen L. Laird

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Overview

A Mind of Her Own:  Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299214531
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 01/13/2006
Series: Wisconsin Land and Life
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 526
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Helen Laird is author of Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artists of the American West. She lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and serves on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Board of Curators.

Table of Contents

<table of contents, p. ix> Contents List of Illustrations 000 Prologue 000 Acknowledgements 000 A Note on Some Family Names 000 1. To Wisconsin 000 2. Getting Ahead 000 3. Marshfield 000 4. Laona 000 5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor 000 6. Business, Politics and Family: 1906-1907 000 7. Risky Business: 1908-1909 000 8. Promising Years: 1909-1913 000 9. Melvin Robert Laird 000 10. Illinois Versus Wisconsin 000 11. War: 1917-1919 000 12. Omaha: 1919-1923 000 13. The Return: 1924-1931 000 14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936 000 15. The Divided House: 1937-1939 000 16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944 000 17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946 000 18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950 000 19. Regent: 1951-1959 000 20. Family Matters: 1951-1959 000 21. A Different World: 1960-1968 000 22. The Mother, The Politician, and The Professor: 1969-1974 000 23. Past and Present: 1975-1979 000 24. Home: 1980-1982 000 Postscript 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
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