Maine

An Annotated Bibliography

Christian P. Potholm

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9780739170052
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Exciting and fascinating, Maine: An Annotated Bibliography is a look at the Maine Experience from its many historical, political, social, and literary perspectives. Organized under such unifying themes as "The Wild, Wild East," "Ethnicity Matters," "Women in Maine," and "Maine in the Civil War," the work gives readers a most useful and often humorous overview of over 400 books written about Maine. The author introduces the reader to many often overlooked works from the nineteeth century and early twentieth century, such as those by Sally Field, Elijah Kellogg, and Chenoa Hall, as well as many studies of familiar political figures such as Bill Cohen, Ed Muskie, Joshua Chamberlain, Angus King, Margaret Chase Smith, and George Mitchell. A valuable resource for anyone interested in the Pine Tree State.

Table of contents

• Preface
• “As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation?”
• Part I: Finding the Real Maines
• Chapter 1: Finding the Real Maines
• Chapter 2: The Wild, Wild East
• Chapter 3: Ethnicity Matters
• Chapter 4: Maine Media
• Chapter 5: Polling
• Part II: The History of Modern Maine Politics
• Chapter 6: The Marvel of Margaret
• Chapter 7: The Muskie Revolution
• Chapter 8: The High Tide of Democratic Aspirations
• Chapter 9: The Cohen Counter-Revolution
• Chapter 10: Maine’s Independent Governors in Myth and Reality
• Chapter 11: Voting Patterns
• Chapter 12: Campaigns and Candidates
• Chapter 13: Ballot Measures and Participatory Democracy
• Part III: Additional Topics
• Chapter 14: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Maine
• Chapter 15: Women of Maine
• Chapter 16: The Bowdoin Connection
• Chapter 17: Visual Depictions of Maine
• Chapter 18: Primary Research Opportunities
• Chapter 19: Best Maine Politics Axioms
• The End
• About the Author