
To Be Hoosiers
Historic Stories of Character & Fortitude
Ray Boomhower(Author)
History Press
Published on 3. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4671-4540-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, residents and visitors alike have pondered the essential question: What is a Hoosier? The final answer may never be determined, but there are, at least, ways to understand the Hoosier character. It was African American pilots taking a stand for equal rights. It was a speech by a presidential candidate that helped keep peace on a tragic night. It was the triumph and near tragedy involving a Mercury Seven astronaut. And it was a sacrifice that ensured a crucial American victory in the Pacific during World War II. As Kurt Vonnegut once said, I don't know what it is about Hoosiers, but wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there. Award-winning biographer Ray E. Boomhower tells us why.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4671-4540-4 (9781467145404)
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02/2020
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A native Hoosier and former newspaper reporter, Ray E. Boomhower has worked at the Indiana Historical Society since 1987, serving as editor of the society's quarterly popular history magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, since 1999. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the nineteenth state, including biographies of such notable Hoosiers as Benjamin Harrison, Gus Grissom, Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace, May Wright Sewall, John Bartlow Martin, Jim Jontz and Alex Vraciu. In 1998, he received the Hoosier Historian Award from the HIS, and in 2010, he was named winner of the Regional Author Award in the annual Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.