Norwegian yankee. Knute Nelson and the failure of American politics, 1860-1923.

Biographical series / Norwegian-American Historical Association 3. Engelsk text. Innehåll: ‘Norway was a kind, but a poor mother’; Vossing American; Serving the Fatherland; Frontier broker between Koshkonong and Madison; Nelson and railroads come to the Upper Country; The Upper Country elects a congressman; Frontier Norwegian-American republican congressman; The republican elites and the people´s party; The lawyer-governor and the reformers; Norwegian-American country lawyer vs. Yankee aristocrat; The senator at home and abroad; ‘On the jump’: Insurgents, Territories, Hearings; Serving the Fatherland: Reprise; Closing arguments; Notes; Index.