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Zachary Michael Jack
"A literary and political biography of the Gilded Age Minnesota congressman Ignatius Donnelly, bestselling populist author of nonfiction and fiction on topics ranging from Atlantis to Shakespearean ciphers to world-ending…
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Sometime love interests, confidants, and intellectual sparring partners, Professor of Leisure Studies Jay Golding and Professor of Anthropology Betsy McPherson have their secure, tenured worlds turned upside down by a…
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It is not uncommon for fathers and sons to come to blows if the two love one another. So says Dr. Harlan Cragg, an ageless, cantankerous golf pro determined to…
What’s the single most important piece of advice you would share with a young Iowan growing up or coming of age in the Hawkeye State? Iowa editor and author Zachary…
Part romantic comedy, part whodunit, part great American road trip, What Cheer asks a lovers ageless questions: where, when, and with whom? Heres a celebration of love sprung from perfectly…
Samuel Pond Ball Clintock wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a Titleist in his fairway, or a Cadillac in his driveway. No, Sammy is coming of age…
The Presidential Election process comes to Iowa with full force every four years. Every serious (and unserious) candidate from all parties march, meet, speak, and try to shake the hands…
Love of the Land: Essential Farm and Conservation Readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920 features an unprecedented collection of historical, interdisciplinary essays that reconstruct for the contemporary reader the…
Today’s professionals recognize the need to elevate written communication beyond argument-driven pedantry, political polemic, and obtuse pontification. Whether the goal is to write the next serious work of best-selling nonfiction…
Editor Zachary Michael Jack reintroduces contemporary agrarian writers, poets of place, and eco-critics to Sigmund’s essential oeuvre in a jam-packed collection featuring eight Sigmund short stories, more than fifty poems…
On Script is the ideal handbook for dedicated writers seeking a virtuoso skillset and a deeper appreciation of the dramatic tradition, from Sophocles to sitcoms.
It’s a good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover. This book features more than three dozen decorated writers who capture the mojo of returning John…
A one-time failed Division One golf walk-on, Zachary Michael Jack opts to stare down an early midlife crisis by chronicling a US Open year spent at Pebble Beach, site of…
In February 1913, firebrand activist General Rosalie Gardiner Jones mustered an army of equal rights activists and women demanding the right to vote and marched 250 miles from Manhattan to…
An anthology of participatory sportswriting that collects 38 essays from the Gilded and Golden Age greats.
Iowa, the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten…
Reveals the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace in his open letters to America’s farm families and their children. This work features homespun tails that show that…
Tackles the dilemma dedicated writers have faced for generations: how to make words on the page as compelling as images on the screen. Perfect for film buffs and TV enthusiasts…
Blends cultural ethnography and demography with moving personal memoir to consider the ways a region’s duende shapes the ethos of a land and its people –
At the height of a Heartland summer a seventh generation midwesterner unlucky in love sets forth from a faraway farm on a quest to road-test what he calls his Beach…
In his eagerly awaited poetic debut, Zachary Michael Jack takes his readers on mind-bending, mytho-poetic travels from modern-day rural Mexico to the American Great Plains of the early century and…
Paul Gallico
For fourteen years during the golden age of sports, Paul Gallico was one of America’s ace sportswriters. He saw them all - the stars and the hams, the immortals and…
Walter Thomas Jack
Released here in a sixtieth anniversary edition and updated and introduced by Walter Thomas Jack’s great-grandson Zachary, this new edition of The Furrow and Us serves as a clarion call…
Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office…
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry…
Theodore Roosevelt, IV
America’s first Green president, Theodore Roosevelt’s credentials as both naturalist and writer are as impressive as they are deep, emblematic of the twenty-sixth President’s unprecedented breadth and energy. While Roosevelt…
A best-of collection of Homer Croy, Missouri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, America’s first student of journalism, and the world’s first novelist to film his way around the globe.
