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Books for All Boilermakers

May 1st, 2020

Our wonderful selection of books on Purdue include two books published for Purdue’s 150th Anniversary, Ever True and Purdue at 150, biographies on notable Purdue alumni, a new collection of Neil Armstrong’s letters, and many others.


 

Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
by John Norberg


 
 
 
 

Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life
by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris


 
 
 
 
A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong


edited by James R. Hansen

 
 
 
 

Wings of Their Dreams: Purdue in Flight, Second Edition
by John Norberg


 
 
 
 

Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man From All Mankind

edited by James R. Hansen
 
 
 
 

Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom
by George Leopold


 
 
 
 

Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer
by Jerry Ross and John Norberg


 
 
 
 

Becoming a Spacewalker: My Journey to the Stars
by Jerry L. Ross and Susan G. Gunderson


 
 
 
 

The Deans’ Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality
by Angie Klink


 
 
 
 

A Purdue Icon: Creation, Life, and Legacy
edited by James L. Mullins


 
 
 
 
 

Slow Ball Cartoonist: The Extraordinary Life of Indiana Native and Pulitzer Prize Winner John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune
by Tony Garel-Frantzen


 
 
 
 
 

For the Good of the Farmer: A Biography of John Harrison Skinner, Dean of Purdue Agriculture
by Frederick Whitford


 
 
 
 

A University of Tradition: The Spirit of Purdue, Second Edition
by Purdue Reamer Club


 
 
 
 

Just Call Me Orville: The Story of Orville Redenbacher


by Robert W. Topping

 
 
 
 
Heartbeat of the University: 125 Years of Purdue Bands


by John Norberg

 
 
 
 
 
Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home


by Angie Klink

 
 
 
 
Ross-Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies


by Robert C. Kriebel

 
 
 
 
Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue


by Irena McCammon Scott

 
 
 
 
The Queen of American Agriculture: A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith


by Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin, and Phyllis Mattheis

 
 
 
 
 

The Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: The Biography of William Carroll Latta


by Frederick Whitford and Andrew G. Martin

 
 
 
 

Midas of the Wabash: A Biography of John Purdue


by Robert C. Kriebel

 
 
 
 

Letters of George Ade

edited by Terence Tobin

 
 
 
 

Force for Change: The Class of 1950

by John Norberg

 
 
 
 
 

Edward Charles Elliott, Educator

by Frank K. Burrin
 
 
 
 

The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde

by Robert W. Topping

 
 
 

Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890

by Victor Lincoln Albjerg

 
 
 
 

My Amiable Uncle: Recollections of Booth Tarkington

by Susanah Mayberry

 
 
 
 

The Dean: A Biography of A. A. Potter

by Robert B. Eckles

 
 
 


 

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