Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.

On July 17th, 2024, we are currently in the middle of the National Republican Convention. This fifty-year-old book on WSU’s retention list shows that the fear of rigged elections is not a new phenomenon. This book was clearly accurate in its predictions, because, only five years later, Ronald Reagan, that notorious dictator of big labor and the radicals, swept into the White House. Just ask a teamster, or an air-traffic controller.

Caddy, Douglas. How They Rig Our Elections: The Coming Dictatorship of Big Labor and the Radicals. Arlington House, 1975.