NEW BOOKS: July 2008

Non-Fiction

Banking on Global Markets: Deutsche Bank and the United States, 1870 to the Present, by Christopher Kobrak

The author examines the history of the political and economic influence of this major German bank in the United States, including its involvement with the Northern Pacific Railway.

Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series, edited by Ingrid Mössinger and Kerstin Drechsel

For his first ever museum exhibition, entitled The Drawn Blank Series, Bob Dylan painted 322 watercolours and gouaches; 170 works were selected for this catalogue.

Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America, by Charles Leerhsen

The story of an unlikely athletic hero and the men who promoted and marketed him.

Check out a MinnPost.com article on "Dan Patch and The Collector: Still Crazy Good After All These Years" about Jim Ashworth, who collects Dan Patch memorabilia.

The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota through 1863, by Jessica Dawn Palmer

A thought-provoking history of the Dakota, combining Dakota traditions and narratives with Euro-American history and science.

The Old Way North: Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition, by David F. Pelly

A fascinating reconstruction of the epic canoe trip of Ernest Oberholtzer and his Anishinaabe friend and guide, Billy Magee, to Hudson's Bay via a route long known by native peoples but at that time (1912) largely unmapped.

Saga of the Grain: A Tribute to Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Growers, by Ervin Oelke

This book, by a retired University of Minnesota professor of agronomy and plant genetics, traces the development of wild rice as a domesticated crop from its use by native peoples to contemporary commercial development.

Tennis in the Northland: A History of Boys' High School Tennis in Minnesota, 1929-2003, by Jim Holden

Everything you ever wanted to know about boys' tennis in Minnesota.