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Spring, 2008
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Jack R. Westbrook. Central Michigan University. Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. Pp. 128. Introduction. Photographs. Paper, $19.99.
      Jack R. Westbrook's Central Michigan University is an arresting and eye-catching work of visual biography that charts the spatial evolution of CMU's Mount Pleasant campus. Beginning with the university's origins as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, which first held classes above a drugstore in Mount Pleasant in 1892, Westbrook provides a visual tour of the institution's growth to the present day, with photographs that include campus buildings, portraits of former presidents and faculty members, and snapshots of student life. Billed as a companion piece to Westbrook's other pictorial histories on Michigan's oil and gas industry and the city of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan University sweepingly demonstrates the many changes the university's expansion had on the cultural and physical landscape of mid-Michigan. . . .
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