The State Historical Society of Iowa invites you to join Annals of Iowa editor Andrew Klumpp to explore Iowa’s past with the Iowa History Book Club. Each quarter, the club will gather online to discuss a different book about Iowa history, with insights from Klumpp and the book's author or another Iowa historian. Registration is free but required for each event.
Questions may be submitted with the online registration form or during the event itself. Participants are encouraged but not required to read the book before the meeting. All of the books can be purchased online or borrowed from most libraries.
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“American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace” by John C. Culver and John Hyde
Hosted by Andrew Klumpp and Tim Walch
Henry Agard Wallace was a trailblazing politician, agriculturalist, economist, author and businessman—loved and reviled, and revealed in this first full biography. To tell the remarkable story of the Iowa-born secretary of agriculture, vice president and authentic American dreamer, the late U.S. Senator John C. Culver and journalist John Hyde combed through thousands of document pages, letters, diaries and family papers, as well as previously unavailable files sealed within the archives of the Soviet Union. Tim Walch, director emeritus of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, will join Andrew Klumpp to discuss Culver and Hyde’s award-winning biography of this monumental figure in Iowa and national politics.
