A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888–1982Terrace Books, 2006 M01 13 - 526 pages A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component. |
Contents
1 To Wisconsin | 3 |
2 Getting Ahead | 11 |
3 Marshfield | 17 |
4 Laona | 28 |
Robert La Follette and WD Connor | 34 |
19061907 | 42 |
19081909 | 53 |
19091913 | 60 |
19401944 | 205 |
19451946 | 247 |
19471950 | 268 |
19511959 | 286 |
19511959 | 302 |
19601968 | 333 |
19691974 | 360 |
19751979 | 383 |
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