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About the Author
Edward McClelland was raised in Lansing, Michigan, and lives in Chicago. His previous books include Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President; The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes; and Horseplayers: Life at the Track. Since beginning his professional writing career at the Lansing Community College Lookout, he has written for the Chicago Reader, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, Salon, Playboy, and many other publications. Find him on the web at www.edwardmcclelland.com and on Twitter at @tedmcclelland.
By the Same Author
Horseplayers:
Life at the Track
The Third Coast:
Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway
Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes
Young Mr. Obama:
Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Copyright © 2013 by Edward McClelland
Portions of this book also appeared in Z, Utne, the Herald & Review (Decatur, Illinois), the Chicago Reader, LOST, Salon, and the books Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation and The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
McClelland, Ted.
Nothin’ but blue skies : the heyday, hard times, and hopes of America’s industrial
heartland / Edward McClelland.—First U.S. edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-1-60819-545-9
1. Middle West—Economic conditions. 2. Lake States—Economic conditions.
3. Industries—Middle West. 4. Industries—Lake States. 5. Social change—Middle West.
6. Social change—Lake States. 7. Working class—Middle West. 8. Working class—
Lake States. 9. Middle West—Politics and government. 10. Lake States—Politics
and government. I. Title. II. Title: Nothing but blue skies.
HC107.A14M37 2013
330.977—dc23
2012042329
First U.S. edition 2013
Electronic edition published in May 2013
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