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North Star Country explores country stores and county fairs, labor unions and dusty roads traveled by peddlers and truck drivers, and farms where families toil. Written in 1945 by acclaimed activist and writer Meridel Le Sueur, this unconventional history shines an uncommon light on ordinary people in the Upper Midwest. In the tradition of James Agee and John Dos Passos, Le Sueur creates a mosaic from the fabric of everyday life, including newspaper clippings, private letters, diaries, and lyrics from popular songs. Each quotation and brief vignette opens a window to an entire lifetime or a way of life. North Star Country highlights the struggles of American Indians and offers a fresh sensibility, untangling the history of the Upper Midwest, sorting it out, and returning it to the common people, to common readers.
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Joseph L Lapomardo
reviewed North Star Country on March 30, 2020
North Star Country
This history of Minnesota and some of the surrounding region was written originally in 1945 by radical writer, Meridel Le Sueur. In it, she tells the story of Minnesota from the bottom up, somewhat reminiscent of the works of Howard Zinn (though he may have written his histories after this one). We hear of none of Minnesota's political leaders by name, and few of its business leaders; instead, we hear about the lives of workers, farmers, Native Americans, and others as they dealt with what history threw their way. It reads more like a novel, than a history book, but for those of us who have lived here in this state for many years, it gives a good picture of the social underpinnings of our state. A good history of Minnesota that tells its story in a new way, though the book was written about seventy years ago.
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