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Black Earth and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom
The collected reflections and wisdoms of 30 contemporary farmer-writer-teachersHeralding the seventy-fifth anniversary of the quintessential agrarian anthology I'll Take My Stand, Zachary Michael Jack, himself a fourth generation farmer's son, has assembled North America's foremost contemporary writers on the present rural experience to provide...- $36.99
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Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game on
Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually...- $24.95
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Iowa: The Definitive Collection: Classic & Contemporary Readings
Author: Zachary Michael JackISBN-10: 1888160381ISBN-13: 9781888160383Publisher: Tall Corn BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2011Pages: 527Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.40d- $26.95
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Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf
It was "scary," Jack Nicklaus said of Pebble Beach, and gave him nightmares so acute he famously woke his wife on the eve of his 1972 U.S. Open victory totally spooked. "It's not a golf course," sportswriter Jim Murray wrote, "it's a hellship." Golf...- $24.95
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March of the Suffragettes: Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the March for Voting Rights
March of the Suffragettes tells the forgotten, real-life story of "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, who in the waning days of 1912 mustered and marched an all-women army nearly 200 miles to help win support for votes for women. General Jones, along with her good...- $14.99
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On Script
Tired of self-promoting gurus touting easy "secrets"? In On Script seasoned scriptwriter, author, and educator Zachary Michael Jack explains step-by-step how successful Creatives write, edit, pitch, polish, and produce dramatic work. Packed with authoritative commentary, prompts, and advice, On Script is the perfect read...- $24.95
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Pond Ball Clintock and the Gods of Golf: A Novel for True Believers
Samuel "Pond Ball" Clintock wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a Titleist in his fairway, or a Cadillac in his driveway. No, Sammy is coming of age in a shack at the edge of town with a golf-gifted daddy who's sworn...- $16.95
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The Art of Public Writing
Today's professionals recognize the need to elevate written communication beyond argument-driven pedantry, political polemic, and obtuse pontification. Whether the goal is to write the next serious work of best-selling nonfiction, to develop a platform as a public scholar, or simply to craft clear and...- $29.99
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The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America's Heartland
What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in...- $18.95
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The Inanity of Music and Wings
In his eagerly awaited poetic debut, Zachary Michael Jack takes his readers on mind-bending, mytho-poetic travels from modern-day rural Mexico to the American Great Plains of the early century and back again. Employing an unlikely list of dramatis personae ranging from Tom Selleck to...- $15.95
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The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon
From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously...- $21.95
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Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families
Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots...- $19.95
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