TY - JOUR
AU - Lass, William E.
AB - The Journal of American History March 1996 bend their energies to the discipline of the vians in American politics; he was really a furnace and forge, despite what Weaver con­ thoroughly Americanized orthodox Republi­ sidered generous incentives. Weaver turned can or "Norwegian Yankee." to slave labor and constructed a small cadre Despite the dates indicated in the title, this biography covers the entirety of Knute of skilled ironworkers, whom he surrounded with a larger group of semiskilled and un­ Nelson's life (1842-1923). Although they em­ phasized Nelson's political career, Gieske and skilled hired slaves and occasionallyfree Black Keillor amply covered his personal and family and white wage workers. history. When he was seven years old, Nelson As Dew plumbs Weaver's enterprises, his and his mother moved from Norway to the work raises fundamental questions about in­ United States, where they ultimately settled dustrial slavery. One of them has to do with on a farm near Madison, Wisconsin. His farm the uniqueness of such slave-based enter­ work and education were broken by a three­ prises. Many of Weaver's slaves-like other year enlistment in a Wisconsin Civil War unit. workers in the beginning stages of industrial­ His wartime experience, which included 
TI - Norwegian Yankee: Knute Nelson and the Failure of American Politics, 1860–1923. By Millard L. Gieske and Steven J. Keillor. (Northfield: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1995. xvi, 426 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87732-083-7.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2945360
DA - 1996-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/norwegian-yankee-knute-nelson-and-the-failure-of-american-politics-9oArt1O02S
SP - 1578
EP - 1579
VL - 82
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -