When Sunflowers Bloomed Red provides a synopsis of a Kansas style of radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement transformed and coalesced with socialist and syndicalist political movements to influence politics and culture in the twentieth century and beyond.
R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (Nebraska, 2014), From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health, and Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2006).
Political historian R. Alton Lee examines the effects of New Deal programs on families, farmers, miners, youth, women, American Indians, and others. Focusing on South Dakota, he evaluates the state's efforts to stave off both starvation and federal dependence as its people endured the worst natural and economic disaster of modern times.
R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of American history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of several books, including Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860–1960 (Nebraska, 2009) and The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley.¿
During the 1950s two Senate investigations, both highly publicized through the new medium of television, revealed the spread of racketeers and corruption among labor unions. Taking advantage of these sensational revelations, business interests, who for years had chafed against the federal government's pro-labor policies, mounted a campaign to curb labor's power. With the support of the business-oriented administration of Dwight Eisenhower, the...
Not only the lives of this century's presidents, but also the figures and events that surround them are covered by the works in this series. This particular volume covers the lives and times of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Thousands of books, articles and dissertations are cited and summarised in each of these detailed, accessible bibliographies. The contents are organised by topic to enable researchers to easily focus on broad or na...
R. Alton Lee is a professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota. He is the author of The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley and T-Town on the Plains.
Tells the story of the infamous "Goat Gland Doctor"-controversial medical charlatan, groundbreaking radio impresario, and prescient political campaigner-and recounts his amazing rags to riches to rags career. A popular joke of the 1920s posed the question, "What's the fastest thing on four legs?" The punch line? "A goat passing Dr. Brinkley's hospital!" It seems that John R. Brinkley's virility rejuvenation cure-transplanting goat gonads into ...
