Flyover Country

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...In Flyover Country you'll meet the dreamers, poets, stoners, jocks, cheerleaders, and anonymous faces that were part of the Class of '69. Then, you'll meet them again, as they are today. Travel the hard road with Harper as the lessons of high school teach him to walk in the deepest black forests. -- Ken Mills, inductee, South Dakota Rock and Roll Music Association Hall of Fame and public radio commentator The impressions of Chris Harper's classmates, mixed with his own....are assembled masterfully to provide us with a revealing picture of Americans living in what the author calls flyover country in two turbulent times -- the 1960s and today. -- Steven Seidman, author of Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World and Through History ...Harper combines the eye of a foreign correspondent with the heart of a poet. He says important things about American culture, about the heartland versus the coasts, about the allure of nostalgia, about the importance of high school as a time of life that shapes us, about the baby boomer experience, about family, and about the pathos of aging. I loved the book. -- Barry Strauss, chair and professor, Department of History, Cornell University A candid, collective portrait of the highs and lows of daily life, Flyover Country seeks to impart invaluable lessons to future generations, and is highly recommended especially for public library collections. * Midwest Book Review *