{"product_id":"aileen-and-roy-mary-cochran-grimes-9780595480500","title":"Aileen and Roy: Up from the Sand Hills to the State House","description":"\u003ci\u003eAileen and Roy\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the author's parents, Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hard-scrabble farm in western Nebraska to the state house in Lincoln as governor, and his wife, Aileen Gantt Cochran, a pioneer teacher and superintendent of schools in the Nebraska sand hills. Roy Cochran's three terms as governor (1935-41) covered the most critical years in the history of the West, when the population was ravaged by drought and the Great Depression and new state-federal programs-social security, the WPA-were coming into being. Aileen Gantt grew up in the small town of North Platte at the end of the 19th century and supported her widowed mother and siblings as a teacher and county school superintendent. Their story, drawn from unpublished memoirs and family letters, provides a unique and intimate picture of life in a small western town around the turn of the century. It is also the story of two remarkable people who faced the challenge of governing in a time of despair and change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Cochran Grimes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595480500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595480500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Mary Cochran Grimes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47757637681407,"sku":"9780595480500","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3a4d8970-e882-489b-a4e1-0f00ea0e5bab.jpg?v=1765510470","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aileen-and-roy-mary-cochran-grimes-9780595480500","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}