Tales of the Midwest: Growing Up and Growing Old in Rural Small-Town, U.S.A.

" God must love the common man; he made so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln They have been called the silent majority-those who toiled from dawn 'til dusk in America's factories, shops, farms, and offices. They have been termed middle class and Middle America. Many of them inhabit the Midwest. They produce the limitless grain, spreadsheets, documents, and widgets that make the United States the greatest society the world has ever known. If ever a generation shared a common experience, it was...