How Iowa Conquered the World: The Story of a Small Farm State's Journey to Global Dominance

by Scott Rank

Overview

Iowa is considered a backward farm state full of bumpkins who wear Carhartt jackets and do little besides give the world corn. But what if that understanding is wrong? What if Iowa has done more to influence the modern world than any other population group?

Turns out it has.

In this new book by #1 best-selling author Michael Rank -- himself a native Iowan -- he discovers how this underdog state

-- Saved billions of people from starvation in the 20th century

-- Created Silicon Valley in the 1960s and inspired the startup culture of egalitarianism and hoodies

-- Decides who will win the presidential election every four years

-- Was the multicultural center of America and hosted more utopian communes and transcendental meditation centers than any other place in the United States

-- Created the General American English accent spoken by all actors and broadcasters. People the world over are learning to speak like an Iowan, even if they don't know it

This book tells the story of Iowa's outsized influence on global events, but it is more importantly about how an underdog can defy the odds and truly make a lasting impact on the world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155063551
Publisher:	Scott Rank
Publication date:	12/15/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	736,790
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Scott Rank is a Ph.D. in History. He graduated magna cum laude from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He has studied Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Armenian, and French but can still pull out a backwater Midwestern accent if need be. He also worked as a journalist in Istanbul for nearly a decade and reported on religion and human rights. He is a publisher, podcaster, adjunct, online instructor, and founder of Scholarpreneur, a website that helps academics take their knowledge to the open market. He is the author of the #1 best-seller “From Muhammed to Burj Khalifa: A Crash Course in 2,000 Years of Middle East History,” and “Off the Edge of the Map: Marco Polo, Captain Cook, and 9 Other Travelers and Explorers that Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World.”