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Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to promote democracy and Western Christian ideals. Over the course of his remarkable life, Rusch served as a college professor and Episcopal missionary, and he was a catalyst for agricultural develo...

As towns in northeastern Montana approach their centennials, "The Red Corner" chronicles the events of the teens and 1920s that left a permanent mark on the region. Sheridan County was the site of an armed robbery of $100, 000 from the county treasury, a Young Communist camp, an adolescent's "Bolshevik funeral, " and surveillance by FBI agents who pursued some radical leaders even into the 1960s. The book profiles several influential Communist...