The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Military Tradition in the South
Time and the Religious Dialog in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
America's First General Strike: The St. Louis "Commune" of 1877
The Daily Telegraph Affair
Education: It Ain't Worth Much, After All
The One-Person Play: A Form of Contemporary Dramatic Biography
POEMS
Rancher: 1864-1928
What the Doctor Found
After the Seance
The Woman at the Jukebox Isn't Sad
Bullhead Country
Father and Son
Starry Night
The Real Thing
Grass Roots
Getting at the Truth
The Latter-Day Crisis of Crusoe
Don Juan in Autumn
The Florist's Daughter
Spastic
1932
NOTE
A Note on Twain and Hemingway
Abstract
in this issue. . .
F. N. BONEY, who suggests that legend has exaggerated the military prowess of the South, received his Ph.D. from The University of Virginia and teaches history at The University of Georgia. He has published widely in French and English on aspects of Southern history. A French version of "The Military Tradition in the South" appeared as a chapter in Le systeme militaire des Etats-Unis: bilan et perspectives, ed. Lucien Mandeville (Toulouse, 1976).
MAJOR L. WILSON, who explains a nineteenth-century religious controversy between organicists and their fundamentalist opponents, received his Ph.D. from The University of Kansas and teaches history at Memphis State University. He has published a book and numerous articles on American social and intellectual history.
DAVID R. ROEDIGER, who looks at the St. Louis general strike of 1877, is a doctoral student in history at Northwestern and has published in a number of journals.
DONALD E. SHEPARDSON, who investigates the consequences of the Kaiser's 1908 "interview" in the London Daily Telegraph, received his Ph.D. from The University of Illinois and teaches history at The University of Northern Iowa. Most of his numerous publications are in the field of diplomatic history.
LEE ELLIS, who examines the probability that study will pay off in cold cash, is an alumnus of Pittsburg State University and has been a governmental research analyst as well as an academic sociologist. Many of his publications deal with health or criminal justice.
PHILIP BORDINAT, who looks into some recent one-person plays, received his Ph.D. from The University of Birmingham in England and teaches English at West Virginia University. He has published widely on fiction and drama.
JESSE BIER, who notes similarities between the dialog of Hemingway's adults and Twain's children, received his Ph.D. from Princeton and teaches English at The University of Montana. He has published novels and stories as well as criticism.
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM is publisher of the Lame Johnny Press in Hermosa, South Dakota. An early version of "Rancher" appeared in West End.
DAVID CLEWELL lives in Madison, Wisconsin. His first book, Room to Breathe, was published by Pentagram Press in 1977. Last year, Chowder Chapbooks published his latest collection, The Blood Knows to Keep Moving.
RONALD WALLACE also lives in Madison. His poems have appeared in The Nation, New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, and other magazines. The University of Missouri Press will bring out his Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks this year.
DAVE ETTER lives in Elburn, Illinois and works as a manuscript editor for Northern Illinois University Press. He has published several collections of his poetry.
CHARLES EDWARD EATON has new poems appearing in The Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Kansas Quarterly, and The Kenyon Review. His fifth collection, The Man in the Green Chair, won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola award in 1978.
ROBERT SIEGEL is Coordinator of Creative Writing at The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and other magazines, and he has published a collection, The Beasts & the Elders.
JACK FLAVIN lives in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he works at the Springfield Public Library.
THE BOOK REVIEWS in this issue are by members of the Pittsburg State University faculty.
Recommended Citation
Boney, F. N.; Wilson, Major L.; Roediger, David R.; Shepardson, Donald E.; Ellis, Lee; Bordinat, Philip; Hasselstrom, Linda M.; Clewell, David; Wallace, Ronald; Etter, Dave; Eaton, Charles Edward; Siegel, Robert; Flavin, Jack; Bier, Jessie; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1980)
"The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 2,"
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