Books for All Boilermakers

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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