A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982

by Helen L. Laird

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299214531
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	01/13/2006
Series:	Wisconsin Land and Life
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	526
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Helen Laird is author of Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artists of the American West. She lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and serves on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Board of Curators.

Table of Contents

<table of contents, p. ix> Contents List of Illustrations 000 Prologue 000 Acknowledgements 000 A Note on Some Family Names 000 1. To Wisconsin 000 2. Getting Ahead 000 3. Marshfield 000 4. Laona 000 5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor 000 6. Business, Politics and Family: 1906-1907 000 7. Risky Business: 1908-1909 000 8. Promising Years: 1909-1913 000 9. Melvin Robert Laird 000 10. Illinois Versus Wisconsin 000 11. War: 1917-1919 000 12. Omaha: 1919-1923 000 13. The Return: 1924-1931 000 14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936 000 15. The Divided House: 1937-1939 000 16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944 000 17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946 000 18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950 000 19. Regent: 1951-1959 000 20. Family Matters: 1951-1959 000 21. A Different World: 1960-1968 000 22. The Mother, The Politician, and The Professor: 1969-1974 000 23. Past and Present: 1975-1979 000 24. Home: 1980-1982 000 Postscript 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000

Editorial Reviews

This biography of my grandmother interweaves a woman's personal story with the history of her time. I found it to be a deeply moving, well researched, suspenseful odyssey.”—Jessica Doyle

“A Mind of Her Own is first and foremost the highly insightful biography of a remarkable woman who was an astute participant/observer in many of the most significant events and developments of her time over nearly nine decades. It is the saga of one of Wisconsin’s most important and influential families over three generations.”—John Buenker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin–Parkside

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