Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, often brings to mind romanticized images of Twain's fictional characters Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer exploring caves and fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River. In City of Dust, Gregg Andrews tells another story of the Hannibal area, the very real story of the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri, an industrial town created to serve the purposes of the Atlas Portland Cement Company. In this new edition, Andrews provides an introduction detailing ...
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Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, often brings to mind romanticized images of Twain's fictional characters Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer exploring caves and fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River. In City of Dust, Gregg Andrews tells another story of the Hannibal area, the very real story of the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri, an industrial town created to serve the purposes of the Atlas Portland Cement Company. In this new edition, Andrews provides an introduction detailing the impact of this book since its initial publication in 1996. He writes of a new twist in the Ilasco saga, one that concerns the Continental Cement Company's attempt, not unlike Atlas's one hundred years earlier, to manipulate the sale of a piece of land near its plant in the town. He explores the uneasy relationship between preservationists and the plant's CEO and officials in St. Louis; the growing movement to preserve Ilasco's heritage, including the building of a monument to commemorate the early residents of the town; and the grassroots petition drive and letter-writing campaign that stopped the Continental Cement Company's machinations.
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Fair in Very good+ jacket. Inscribed by Andrews! Yellow cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has heavy underlining and marginalia in pencil. DJ has mild shelfwear, front flap creased.
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8vo, pp. xii, 360. Bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Author's presentation on flyleaf. Light yellow cloth. A nice copy in dj. The story of Ilasco, MO, and of the people who worked in the Atlas Portland Cement Co.
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Fair. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours! !
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Fine. Fine Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall 1st printing with number 1 on copyright page in printline. Fine in a fine jacket-bright and new-looking. Inscribed in ink by the author to someone on the blank endpaper: " _______ Thanks for keeping interest in the history of Ilasco alive. I hope you enjoy this book as much a I did when I researhced and wrote it. Best sishes, Gregg Andrews 11-2-96." Signed in the year or publication.
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