Woodstock - Tammeus, Bill
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From the middle of the Twentieth Century and, often, from the middle of the United States came people Bill Tammeus describes as Middle Americans. This book is about why they mattered and how America is different today because of their values, approaches and adaptability as they faced and even helped to shape the enormous changes that have swept across American life in the last seventy or more years. This is both a highly personal story of the author's roots and experiences as a representative Middle American as well as a much broader story of people who have made an enormous difference in their communities and their nation.…mehr

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From the middle of the Twentieth Century and, often, from the middle of the United States came people Bill Tammeus describes as Middle Americans. This book is about why they mattered and how America is different today because of their values, approaches and adaptability as they faced and even helped to shape the enormous changes that have swept across American life in the last seventy or more years. This is both a highly personal story of the author's roots and experiences as a representative Middle American as well as a much broader story of people who have made an enormous difference in their communities and their nation.
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Bill Tammeus is an award-winning former columnist for The Kansas City Star. He was a member of the Star staff that won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He writes the "Faith Matters" blog (https://billtammeus.typepad.com) and writes columns for The Presbyterian Outlook and for Flatland, KCPT-TV's digital magazine, in addition to book reviews for The National Catholic Reporter. A native of Woodstock, Illinois, he's an honors graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His many awards include several from the American Academy of Religion and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, of which he's a past president. He received the David Steele Distinguished Writer Award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild in 2003 and the Wilbur Award for column writing from the Religion Communicators Council in 2005. His work also has appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday and the Milwaukee Journal as well as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Missouri Life, the New Letters Review of Books, New Letters magazine and Theology Today. His column also has been syndicated by The New York Times News Service and by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. This is his seventh book. With his wife Marcia, he lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where both serve as elders at Second Presbyterian Church. Between them they have six children and eight grandchildren.