ABOUT THIS BOOK

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Helen Laird is author of Carl Oscar Borg and the Magic Region: Artists of the American West. She lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and serves on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Board of Curators.

REVIEWS

“This biography of my grandmother interweaves a woman's personal story with the history of her time. I found it to be a deeply moving, well researched, suspenseful odyssey.”—Jessica Doyle

“A Mind of Her Own is first and foremost the highly insightful biography of a remarkable woman who was an astute participant/observer in many of the most significant events and developments of her time over nearly nine decades. It is the saga of one of Wisconsin’s most important and influential families over three generations.”—John Buenker, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin–Parkside

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Contents
List of Illustrations	000
Prologue	000
Acknowledgements	000
A Note on Some Family Names	000
1. To Wisconsin	000
2. Getting Ahead	000
3. Marshfield	000
4. Laona	000
5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor	000
6. Business, Politics and Family: 1906-1907 	000
7. Risky Business: 1908-1909	000
8. Promising Years: 1909-1913	000
9. Melvin Robert Laird	000
10. Illinois Versus Wisconsin	000
11. War: 1917-1919	000
12. Omaha: 1919-1923	000
13. The Return: 1924-1931	000
14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936	000
15. The Divided House: 1937-1939	000
16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944	000
17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946	000
18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950	000
19. Regent: 1951-1959	000
20. Family Matters: 1951-1959	000
21. A Different World: 1960-1968	000
22. The Mother, The Politician, and The Professor: 1969-1974	000
23. Past and Present: 1975-1979	000
24. Home: 1980-1982		000
Postscript	000
Selected Bibliography 	000
Index	000

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