Bøger af John E. Miller

Evidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege. This volume identifies and explains a dozen separate challenges threatening American democracy. Sorting them into political and social/cultural problems, each challenge is placed in historical context to describe how they work together to undermine the democratic underpinnings of the US.

Taking concepts such as place and community, freedom and control, Miller shows how they operate in Laura Ingalls Wilder's novels of prairie life. The book is grounded in detailed research of the Dakotas of the 1880s.

Focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, the author attempts to fill the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels, and describes her sixty-three years of living in Mansfield, Missouri.