What Kansas Means to Me: Twentieth-Century Writers on the Sunflower State

by Thomas Fox Averill

Book Overview

"To understand why people say 'Dear old Kansas!" is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a 'state of mind, ' a religion, and a philosophy in one," writes historian Carl Becker in the classic 1910 essay that leads off this volume. Like Becker, the twelve other essayists and four poets try to map the spiritual topography of Kansas and explain why this particular patch of prairie is so dear. They share the conviction that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607102
• ISBN13: 9780700607105
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 7.5"