| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History. Edited by Virgil W. Dean. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii + 408 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.)

Kansans recently celebrated the sesquicentennial of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which established Kansas Territory, and soon will celebrate the 150th anniversary of statehood. From the "Bleeding Kansas" era through current struggles, Kansas has received national attention for interesting public figures. Dean places these figures into perspective with a useful introduction to Kansas biography followed by a chronologically-arranged collection of twenty-six biographies of Kansas "agitators, motivators, and innovators" by twenty-six noted historians. Dean observes that the twenty-six Kansans are "representative" of people who have "'made a difference' in both positive and negative ways" and that his purpose is not to praise prominent people, but to inspire: "Kansas needs a crop of leaders (twenty first century agitators, motivators, and innovators) to take up [its] new challenges" (pp. xii, 15).

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