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Winthtop Rockefeller's Journey From New York to Arkansas

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Winthrop Rockefeller was a member of one of the most famous American families when he moved to Arkansas. In 1966 he became the first elected Republican governor in Arkansas in nearly a century. The new book Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912-1956 from John Kirk examines the first two-thirds of his life.

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