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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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The History of Champaign County, Ohio
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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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The History of Darke County, Ohio
Author: The Countess and the Mob
Author: Maureen HughesPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450207499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Maureen Hughes was first introduced to Countess Marajen Chinigo in the 1980s in a hospital room in Champaign, Illinois. Assigned to provide personal security to the Countess, Hughes knew few details about the woman she was protecting. Little did she know that Countess Chinigo was a woman connected to some of the most notorious and famousor infamouspeople of the twentieth century. Hughes did not see the Countess again until a few years later at a local art museum. Intrigued by the impeccably dressed woman who strolled through the crowd like a queen, Hughes vowed to find out all she could about the mysterious Countess. As Hughes shares the fascinating story she uncovered after conducting three years of research and in-depth conversations with friends of the Countess, she unveils a time period where mobsters, presidents, celebrities, and countesses all mingled among dark, captivating secrets. Hughes reveals details about the famous figures the Countess hobnobbed with like Frank Sinatra, Joan Crawford, and Lucky Luciano, her marriage to Johnny Rosselli, and her eventual entanglements with the Mafia. The Countess and the Mob paints a compelling portrait of the kaleidoscopic shapes and colors that made up the extraordinary and unforgettable life of Countess Marajen Stevick Chinigo.
History of Champaign County, Ohio
Author: Evan P. MiddletonPublisher:
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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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History of Marion and Clinton Counties, Illinois
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Category : Clinton County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Early History and Pioneers of Champaign County
Author: Milton W. MathewsPublisher:
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Category : Champaign County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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History of Shelby County, Ohio
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Category : Shelby County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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History of Champaign County, Ohio
Author: Evan P. MiddletonPublisher:
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Category : Champaign County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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History of Henry County, Illinois
Author: Henry L. KinerPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Heartland
Author: Kristin L. HogansonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525561633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.