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From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction Forrest A. Nabors

Winner of the Best Book in American Political Thought Award, 2017

The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970- 1991 Gregory Fontenot

Winner of the 2017 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award for Unit History

Howard Wight Marshall, author of Fiddler’s Dream and Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Winner of the Missouri Humanities Council’s 2018 Distinguished Literary Achievement Award

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“Gary Scharnhorst’s monumental biography sets a new standard for comprehensiveness. This will prove to be the standard bi-ography for our generation.”— Alan Gribben, author of Mark Twain’s Literary Resources: A Reconstruction of His Library and Reading

“Clear and engaging, Scharnhorst’s prose keeps you rolling happily through this consummate American adventure.”— Bruce Michelson, author of Printer’s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution

“In its wit and clarity, Scharnhorst’s biography will appeal to de-voted readers of Mark Twain’s life and fiction, while scholars will find in this volume a smart, insightful, unsentimental view of Twain.”— Ann M. Ryan, co- editor of Cosmopolitan Twain

In the first volume of his three- volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst covers the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his childhood in Missouri to his work in printshops, his career as a Mississippi River pilot, his writing stint in Nevada, and his trip to Europe and the Holy Land, and ends with his move east to Buffalo, New York.

Gary Scharnhorst is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or edi-tor of fifty books, including Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor (University of Missouri Press). He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Published with the generous support of the Missouri Humanities Council and The State Historical Society of Missouri

THE LIFE OF MARK TWAIN THE EARLY YEARS, 1835–1871Gary Scharnhorst

Literary Biography/Mark Twain and His Circle series

AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2144- 5 | $36.95 T | 718 PP. | 25 ILLUSDIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7400-7

The Life of

MARK TWAIN

THE EARLY YEARS

Gary Scharnhorst

1835–1871

“Scharnhorst's thorough and careful research results in a scholarly biography that will undoubtedly be considered definitive.” —Publishers Weekly

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Literary Biography/Mark Twain and His Circle series

THE LIFE OF MARK TWAINTHE MIDDLE YEARS, 1871–1891

Gary Scharnhorst

JUNE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2189- 6 | $36.95 T | 802 PP. | 29 ILLUS.DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7430-4

“The second installment of Gary Scharnhorst’s multi- volume biography of Mark Twain is arguably even more momentous than the first. . . . Readers familiar with the first volume will not be disappointed by the second one.”—Joseph Csicsila, Eastern Michigan University, au-thor of Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies

The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three- volume biogra-phy chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid- 1891. During this time he wrote and published some of his best- known works, including Roughing It, The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

During these years, too, Clemens expressed his views on racial and gender equality and turned to political mugwumpery; sup-ported the presidential campaigns of Grover Cleveland; advo-cated for labor rights, international copyright, and revolution in Russia; founded his own publishing firm; and befriended former president Ulysses S. Grant, supervising the publication of Grant’s Memoirs.

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN THE FOUNDING ERAAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Carli N. Conklin

“Professor Conklin is one of those exceedingly rare and invalu-able scholars who unites in a single analysis of the founders’ thought the four traditions that most influenced them— the clas-sical heritage, Christianity, the English legal tradition, and the Scottish Enlightenment— rather than advocate for the primacy of a single heritage. She presents a cogent argument that the glue that held these diverse influences together was their shared con-ception of ‘the pursuit of happiness.’”— Carl Richard, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, author of The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation’s Thought

“Addresses a perennial question in the scholarly literature as to why Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, substituted ‘pursuit of happiness’ for Locke’s ‘property’ in its listing of nat-ural rights.”— Garrett Sheldon, University of Virginia’s College at Wise, author of The Political Philosophy of James Madison and The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson

Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happi-ness, yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume, Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions and explores its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era, William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England and the Declaration of Independence. In so doing, she makes several important contributions to the fields of early American intellectual and legal history.

Carli N. Conklin is Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law. She lives in central Missouri.

Political Philosophy/US History/Studies in Constitutional Democracy series


THE PANIC OF 1819THE FIRST GREAT DEPRESSION

Andrew H. Browning

APRIL | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2183- 4 | $45.00 S | 444 PP. | 4 MAPSDIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7425-0

US History/Economics/Studies in Constitutional Democracy series

“This is an excellent book on a neglected episode of American economic and financial history— the Panic of 1819— and also on American political and social history in general during, rough-ly, the first three decades of the nineteenth century.”— Richard Sylla, New York University, author of The American Capital Market, 1846–1914: A Study of the Effects of Public Policy on Economic Management

“A serious work on a vital topic.”— Daniel S. Dupre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, author of Alabama’s Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States, forming before the War of 1812, cresting with the land and cotton boom of 1818, and crashing just as the nation confronted the crisis over slavery in Missouri. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes toward wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War. Although it stands as one of the turning points of American history, few Americans today have even heard of the Panic of 1819, yet we continue to ignore its lessons— and repeat its mistakes.

Andrew H. Browning was educated at Princeton and the University of Virginia. He has taught history in Washington, D.C., Honolulu, and Portland, Oregon.

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Provoking the Press[MORE] Magazine and the Crisis of Confidence in American Journalism

Kevin M. Lerner

PROVOKING THE PRESS(MORE) MAGAZINE AND THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN AMERICAN JOURNALISM

Kevin M. Lerner

Journalism/Social History/Journalism in Perspective: Continuities and Disruptions series

“Provoking the Press is a welcome addition to the scholarly subge-nre of press criticism/journalism history principally because its author provides a new way . . . to look at the more than sixty- year campaign against corporate mainstream news media’s Holy Grail of objectivity.”— Arthur S. Hayes, Fordham University, author of Press Critics Are the Fifth Estate: Media Watchdogs in America

“Lerner’s work adds an important chapter to the history of press criticism as well as the broader history of 1970s journalism.”— Christopher B. Daly, Boston University, author of Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism

(MORE): A Journalism Review was co- founded by J. Anthony Lukas, a star at The New York Times who felt that the rigors of daily journalism were stifling him and other journalists like him, and Richard Pollak, a former Newsweek media writer. From 1971 to 1978, they and their collaborators and successors produced a monthly magazine that addressed newsroom diversity, the rela-tionship between the press and politicians, censorship, and other issues essential to ensuring the institution’s vitality. In telling the story of (MORE) and its legacy, Kevin Lerner explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press that, in turn, influence public discourse.

Kevin M. Lerner is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and edits the Journal of Magazine Media. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

JUNE | H:978- 0- 8262- 2186- 5 | $35.00 S | 210 PP. | 6 ILLUS.DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7428-1


REWRITING THE NEWSPAPER

Journalism/Social History/Journalism in Perspective: Continuities and Disruptions series

THE STORYTELLING MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN PRINT JOURNALISM

JULY | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2188- 9 | $35.00 S | 170 PP.DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7431-1

Thomas R. Schmidt

The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

Rewriting the Newspaper

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Thomas R. Schmidt

“Offers a detailed, rich, and fascinating account of the narra-tive journalism movement from the Washington Post to the St. Petersburg Times to the Oregonian and beyond. No one else has done this and Thomas Schmidt has done it with deep research and strong writing himself.”— Michael Schudson, Columbia University, author of The Sociology of News and Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers

Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional changes in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism’s evolution from the New Journalism of the 1960s to long- form literary journalism in the 1990s.

Based on the analysis of primary sources, industry publications, and oral history interviews, this study traces how narrative tech-niques developed and spread through newsrooms, propelled by institutional initiatives and a growing network of practitioners, proponents, and writing coaches who mainstreamed the use of storytelling. By showing how the narrative form of journal-ism was embraced, resisted, and negotiated by various actors in American journalism, Schmidt sheds light on the interac-tion between journalism and social forces in the late twentieth century.

Thomas R. Schmidt is an Instructor at Boise State University. He lives in Boise, Idaho.

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RECONCEIVING NATUREECOFEMINISM IN LATE VICTORIAN WOMEN’S POETRY

Patricia Murphy

“An important contribution both to the growing field of inter-disciplinary scholarship on ecofeminism in literature and to a new wave of fin- de- siècle studies that seeks to revisit and recon-figure the period by challenging twentieth- century modernist assumptions about late- century literature and culture.”— James Diedrick, Agnes Scott College, author of Mathilde Blind: Late Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters

“Performs an important function in reclaiming some non- canonical writers who, nevertheless, were generally much better known in their period and who, it is convincingly argued, can speak to contemporary ecological concerns.”— John Parham, University of Worcester, author of Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination

Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets— Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance Naden, and L. S. Bevington— who contested the exploitation of the nat-ural world. Challenging prevalent assumptions that nature is in-ferior, rightly subordinated, and deservedly manipulated, these poets instead “reconstructed” nature.

Patricia Murphy is Professor Emerita of English at Missouri Southern State University and is also the author of The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress; In Science’s Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women; and Time Is of the Essence: Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman. She lives in Joplin, Missouri.MAY | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2187- 2 | $50.00 S | 280 PP.

DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7429-8

Literary Criticism/Poetry/Ecofeminism


Military Policy/American Military Experience series

MILITARY REALISM THE LOGIC AND LIMITS OF FORCE AND INNOVATION IN THE U.S. ARMY

Peter Campbell

“An important contribution to the scholarship on military doc-trine and its importance to international relations and security studies.”— Benjamin Jensen, American University, author of Forging the Sword: Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsur-gency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surpris-ing, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re- embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution of army doctrinal thinking from 1960 to 2008.

In five case studies of U.S. Army doctrine, Campbell pits military realism against bureaucratic and cultural perspectives in three key areas— nuclear versus conventional warfare, preferences for offense versus defense, and COIN missions— and finds that the army has been more doctrinally flexible than those perspectives would predict. He demonstrates that decision makers, while vowing in the wake of Vietnam to avoid COIN missions, none-theless found themselves adapting to the geopolitical realities of fighting “low intensity” conflicts. In essence, he demonstrates that pragmatism has won out over dogmatism. At a time when American policymakers remain similarly conflicted about future defense strategies, Campbell’s work will undoubtedly shape and guide the debate.

Peter Campbell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baylor University.

JUNE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2184- 1 | $50.00 S | 416 PP. | 1 ILLUS.DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7426-7

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FEBRUARY | P: 978- 0- 8262- 2190- 2 | $21.95 T | 280 PP.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

Personal Memoir/Health & Medicine

ONE OF USA FAMILY’S LIFE WITH AUTISM

Mark Osteen

“A brave dad’s honest diary of raising a son with severe autism who has difficulty learning basic skills. It should be read by psy-chologists, family therapists, and others who are helping fami-lies to cope.”— Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

“As the father of a son like Cameron, with autism and severe learning disabilities, I can identify with every page of this ex-traordinary account. Mark Osteen writes with style and wit, but above all with courage.”— Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, M.D., au-thor of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion

In 1991, Mark Osteen and his wife, Leslie, were struggling to understand why their son, Cameron, was so different from other kids. At age one, Cam had little interest in toys and was surpris-ingly fixated on books. He didn’t make baby sounds; he ignored other children. As he grew older, he failed to grasp language, remaining unresponsive even when his parents called his name. When Cam started having screaming anxiety attacks, Mark and Leslie began to grasp that Cam was developmentally delayed.

In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, Osteen recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding Cam’s disability, following the family through the years of medical difficulties and emotional wrangling.

Mark Osteen is Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Loyola University. He has written four books, including Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream, and has edited several other academic works. He and his wife live in Baltimore, Maryland.

“Represents a significant intervention in recent critical discus-sions placing American and African American literature in global, comparative, transnational, and transpacific contexts.” — Anita Patterson, Boston University, author of Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms

“This excellent study is not the first to deal with Eastern influ-ences on Western literature and thinking, but it is a most timely offering— thorough in its research and clear in its presentation. Highly recommended.”— Choice

This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges be-tween the East and West began in the early nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Yoshinobu Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demon-strates the East- West exchange through discussions of the in-teractions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac. Finally, he argues that works of African American literature, represented by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Emanuel, take on their full significance only when they are read, not as part of a national literature, but as an index to an evolving literature of cultural exchanges.

Yoshinobu Hakutani is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the author of several recent books, including Richard Wright and Haiku.

EAST- WEST LITERARY IMAGINATIONCULTURAL EXCHANGES FROM YEATS TO MORRISON

Yoshinobu Hakutani

Literary Criticism/Comparative

JANUARY | P: 978- 0- 8262- 2182- 7 | $24.95 S | 336 PP.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

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“Lisa Ossian’s book is thoughtful and entertaining. It is a joy to read. Both WWII scholars and Iowans will be amazed at the amount of interesting material she has uncovered.”— Doris Weatherford, author of American Women and World War II

“An exceedingly well- written account of Iowa during World War II. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945 is stimulating, provoca-tive, and well worth reading.” — Richard Lowitt, author of The New Deal and the West

Lisa Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to enthusiasm for World War II and answered the call to support the war effort on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa’s farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and bullets. Meanwhile, communities sup-ported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning.

Depicting real people and their concerns, the book shows the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa’s sons who fell in battle. Ossian also consid-ers the importance of race, class, and gender— particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work.

Lisa L. Ossian is Professor of History at Des Moines Area Community College. She is the author of two other books: The Depression Dilemmas of Rural Iowa, 1929-1933 and The Forgotten Generation: American Children and World War II.

THE HOME FRONTS OF IOWA1939–1945

Lisa L. Ossian

US History/World War II



THE STRANGE DEATH OF MARXISM THE EUROPEAN LEFT IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

Paul Edward Gottfried

In The Strange Death of Marxism, Paul Edward Gottfried seeks to refute certain misconceptions about the European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist- Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically and in detail is that the Post- Marxist Left (a term the book uses to describe this phenomenon) springs from a distinct-ly Marxist tradition of thought and that it represents an unquali-fied rejection of American capitalist values and practices.

Three distinctive features of the book are the attempts to dissoci-ate the present European Left from Marxism, the presentation of this Left as something that developed independently of the fall of the Soviet empire, and the emphasis on the specifically American roots of the European Left. Gottfried examines the multicultural orientation of this Left and concludes that it has little or nothing to do with Marxism as an economic- historical theory. It does, however, owe a great deal to American social engineering and pluralist ideology and to the spread of American thought and political culture to Europe.

Paul Edward Gottfried is a former Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and a Guggenheim recipient. He is the author of several books, includ-ing Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy.

Political Science/European History/Philosophy


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“This book takes on a ubiquitous topic in original and useful ways. It ought to have a substantial impact on how we think about the separation of powers in the United States and lead us to better appreciate how our constitutional scheme does and should work.” — Keith Whittington, author of Constitutional Construction

“The functional notion of the separation of powers has nev-er been developed fully and clearly in one book. The fact that Siemers mixes this with an outstanding assessment of the con-temporary consequences of our misguided notions of the separa-tion of powers makes this book even more exciting.”— Benjamin Kleinerman, author of The Discretionary President

The idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in classrooms, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this myth normalizes a poli-tics of gridlock, in which the action of any branch can be checked by the reaction of any other. The Founders, however, envisioned a separation of functions rather than a separation of powers. Siemers argues that this view needs to replace our current view, so that the goals set out in the Constitution’s Preamble may be better achieved.

David J. Siemers is a Professor of Political Science at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and the author of four books, including Presidents and Political Thought. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Political Science/American Government/General/Studies in Constitutional Democracy series

AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2169- 8 | $40.00 S | 240 PP. | 4 TABLESDIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

THE MYTH OF COEQUAL BRANCHESRESTORING THE CONSTITUTION’S SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS

David J. Siemers


AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2165- 0 | $50.00 S | 248 PP. | 20 ILLUS.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

RUBE TUBECBS AND RURAL COMEDY IN THE SIXTIES

“A well- researched and insightful book. It’s broadcast history that illuminates American history.”— Mary Ann Watson, author of Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century

“Rube Tube is a lucid, well- argued account of CBS’s program-ming strategies in the early days of television. The author pro-vides context for understanding the choices and motivations behind programs that have become part of our shared cultural experience.”— Joanna Morreale, editor of Critiquing the Sitcom: A Reader

Historian Sara Eskridge examines television’s rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nick-named the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in west-erns. When a rival network introduced rural- themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s.

Sara K. Eskridge is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Randolph Macon College. She lives in Quinton, Virginia.

Performing Arts/Television/History & Criticism

Sara K. Eskridge

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“This work will not only be of interest to Kansas Citians but also to scholars of the Progressive Era, the woman’s rights movement, and Missouri history.”—Petra DeWitt, Missouri University of Science and Technology, author of Degrees of Allegiance: Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri’s German-American Community during World War I

David Hanzlick traces the rise and evolution of women’s activ-ism in a rapidly growing, Midwestern border city, one deeply scarred by the Civil War and struggling to determine its mean-ing. Over the course of 70 years, women in Kansas City emerged from the domestic sphere by forming and working in female-led organizations to provide charitable relief, reform society’s ills, and ultimately claim space for themselves as full participants in the American polity. Focusing on the social construction of gender, class, and race, and the influence of political philoso-phy in shaping responses to poverty, Hanzlick also considers the ways in which city politics shaped the interactions of local activist women with national women’s groups and male-led organizations.

K. David Hanzlick is Director of Program and Development for Sheffield Place, a treatment and transitional living program for homeless mothers and children. He also serves as an adjunct fac-ulty member in the Nonprofit Leadership Program at Rockhurst University and the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs at Park University. He lives in Overland Park, Kansas.

K. David Hanzlick

BENEVOLENCE, MORAL REFORM, EQUALITY WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN KANSAS CITY, 1870 TO 1940

History/United States/State & Local/Midwest

AVAILABLE | H: 978-0-8262-2162-9 | $50.00 S | 316 PP.8 ILLUS. | 2 MAPS | 4 TABLES

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“These three writers are at last placed side by side, revealing how close their mindsets were, yet how different each was from the other. A significant contribution to American literary criti-cism.”—Earle Bryant, editor of Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses

“Cohen does an admirable job of explicating how these au-thors responded to the rise of the Popular Front and other left-ist movements: Steinbeck’s concern with homegrown fascism, Hemingway’s involvement in Loyalist Spain, and Wright’s belief that racism reflected fascist impulses.”—Gary Holcomb, co-ed-itor of Hemingway and the Black Renaissance

In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen ex-amines their motives for involvement with the Left; their nov-els’ political themes; and why they separated from the Left after the novels were published. These writers were deeply conflicted about their political commitments, and Cohen explores the ten-sions that arose between politics and art, resulting in the aban-donment of a political attachment.

Milton A. Cohen is a Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and the author of four books, in-cluding Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s. He lives in Richardson, Texas.

THE PULL OF POLITICS STEINBECK, WRIGHT, HEMINGWAY, AND THE LEFT IN THE LATE 1930s

Milton A. Cohen

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Literary Criticism/American/General

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“Not only a unique contribution to Arkansas history but also, I think, a significant addition to what we know of protest move-ments nationally during the late nineteenth century.”—Carl H. Moneyhon, Professor of History, University of Arkansas–Little Rock; author of Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929

This book is the first devoted entirely to an examination of working- class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers’ orga-nizations, labor unions, and (often biracial) political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time: had the Arkansas Democratic Party not resorted to undemocratic, unscrupulous, and violent means of repression, the Arkansas Union Labor Party would have taken control of the state government in the election of 1888. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time, their influence extending into the biracial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union of the 1930s, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and even today’s Farmers’ Union and the United Mine Workers of America.

The story of farmer and labor protest in Arkansas during the late nineteenth century offers lessons relevant to contemporary working- class Americans in what some observers have called the “new Gilded Age.”

Matthew Hild teaches U.S. history and the history of technology and science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He also teaches U.S. and Georgia history at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton and is the author of Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

History/United States/State & Local/South

AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2166- 7 | $40.00 S | 220 PP.6 ILLUS. | 1 MAP

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ARKANSAS’S GILDED AGETHE RISE, DECLINE, AND LEGACY OF POPULISM AND WORKING- CLASS PROTEST

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The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the MythStuart L. WeissP: 978-0-8262-2172-8 | $24.95 T

Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879Leigh FoughtP: 978-0-8262-2171-1 | $24.95 S

Bareface: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Last NovelDoris T. MyersP: 978-0-8262-2148-3 | $35.00 S

The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century LiteratureCharles R. EmbryP: 978-0-8262-2152-0 | $25.00 S

Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe RossTeva J. ScheerP: 978-0-8262-2180-3 | $24.95 T

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Thomas Ewing, Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War GeneralRonald D. SmithP: 978-0-8262-2179-7 | $26.95 S

From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War CommunityDennis W. BrandtP: 978-0-8262-2173-5 | $24.95 S

America’s First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904George R. MatthewsP: 978-0-8262-2181-0 | $24.95 T

Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949Richard Nelson Current, ed.P: 978-0-8262-2177-3 | $24.95 S

The Missouri Mormon ExperienceThomas M. Spencer, ed.P: 978-0-8262-2178-0 | $24.95 S

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The Colored Aristocracy of St. LouisCyprian Clamorgan, Edited by Julie WinchP: 978-0-8262-2151-3 | $25.00 S

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Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black ResettlementPhillip W. Magness, Sebastian N. PageP: 978-0-8262-2149-0 | $25.00 S

A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?Virginia BernhardP: 978-0-8262-2145-2 | $26.95 T

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BREAKING BABE RUTHBaseball’s Campaign Against Its Biggest Star

Edmund F. Wehrle

From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman

Edited and with an Introduction byArmin Mattes

Francis J. Grund ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA

BREAKING BABE RUTHBASEBALL’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST ITS BIGGEST STAREdmund F. Wehrle

“A fascinating story that seeks to show an aspect of Babe Ruth’s career not dealt with in past biographies. Wehrle succeeds in showing how the baseball establishment aided by the journalism of the day sought to portray Ruth as a spoiled and unintelligent man- child. After Breaking Babe Ruth all future writers about Ruth and his times will have to deal with Wehrle’s ground- breaking research.”— John Rossi, LaSalle University, Philadelphia

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth

as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and po-tential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

Edmund F. Wehrle is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston.

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“Mattes has done historians a real service by contextualizing and annotating a primary source that, among its many discernments, finds inequality in America, not in the political and economic spheres, but in a pseudo- aristocratic social elitism.”— Kevin Butterfield, director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the University of Oklahoma, author of The Making of Tocqueville’s America

Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding

the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric travel memoir in response to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. In this important work, Grund sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democ-racy” that loomed so large in early republi-can Americans’ minds.

Armin Mattes is at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and is the author of Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland. He lives in Bad Saulgau, Germany.

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BEFORE JOURNALISM SCHOOLSHow Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules

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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF JOURNALISMTHE PULPIT VERSUS THE PRESS, 1833–1923

Ronald R. Rodgers

“This may be a book about history, but its concerns are remarkably contemporary. Its central concern is the struggle for journal-ism that is both trustworthy and important, a concern that resonates with today’s society that urgently needs credible news reporting but that distrusts media more than ever.” — John Ferré, University of Louisville, coauthor of Good News: Social Ethics and the Press

Ronald Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its opposition

to the Sunday newspaper; its attempt to create a Christian newspaper; and the ways in which it pressured the press to become a moral agent. The digital disruption of the news media today has provoked a similar search for a news ethic. But, Rodgers argues, before we begin to transform journalism’s present news ethic, we need to understand its foundation and formation in the past.

Ronald R. Rodgers is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Florida and lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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BEFORE JOURNALISM SCHOOLSHOW GILDED AGE REPORTERS LEARNED THE RULES

Randall S. Sumpter

“Introduces the notion that the day’s news work rules were spread through commu-nities of practice, that is, informal inter-personal networks involving ‘knowledge brokers,’ as well as through news fiction, newswriters’ autobiographies, and trade and general interest publications. The author’s early point about how studying this topic can offer insight into today’s technology- driven upsetting of the boundaries of journalism underscores why this study is important.” — Patricia Dooley, Wichita State University, author of The Technology of Journalism

Randall Sumpter questions the notion that reporters entering the field in the late 19th century relied on an informal apprentice-ship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than fifty reporters, he argues that cub reporters could and did access multiple sources of instruction, including autobiographies of journalists and trade magazines.

Randall S. Sumpter is an Associate Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. He lives in College Station, Texas.

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WE MET IN PARISGrace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

JOAN E. HOWARD

Creating Identity in the

Victorian Fictional Autobiography

Heidi L. Pennington

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GRACE FRICK AND HER LIFE WITH MARGUERITE YOURCENARJoan E. Howard

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“In this remarkable and essential first biog-raphy of Grace Frick, Joan E. Howard paints the figure of a twentieth century woman eager to promote women’s education and to defend civil rights; a woman passionate about literature who became the indefatiga-ble translator of the works of her lover, the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Against the clichés spread by many of Yourcenar’s biographers, Howard does justice to the relationship between the two women, to the life they chose to build together, and gives us a deeper understanding of their en-twined literary careers.”— Béatrice Mousli, University of Southern California, author of Susan Sontag

“We will henceforth be obliged to count this biography of Grace Frick in the forefront of biographies of Marguerite Yourcenar.”— Bérengère Deprez, author of Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA

Joan E. Howard is the Director of Petite Plaisance, the former home of Marguerite Yourcenar and Grace Frick, and is the author of From Violence to Vision: Sacrifice in the Works of Marguerite Yourcenar. She lives in Augusta and Northeast Harbor, Maine.

CREATING IDENTITY IN THE VICTORIAN FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHYHeidi L. Pennington

“Compellingly makes the case for the ‘fictional autobiography’ as a form that can tell us much about the ways in which the Victorians understood the concepts of iden-tity, character, and fictionality. She details how Victorian authors understood personal identity as narratively constructed— long before postmodern writers. The book offers exciting new readings of well- known texts like David Copperfield and Jane Eyre and will be of interest to scholars working in both narrative theory and Victorian studies.” — Tara McDonald, University of Idaho, author of The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

“Seldom does one read a monograph as well conceived, thoroughly researched, textually interconnected, and persuasively written as Heidi Pennington’s Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography— a brilliant book.”— Linda M. Lewis, Bethany College, author of Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader

Heidi L. Pennington is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at James Madison University. She lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia.


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OMAR NELSON BRADLEYAMERICA’S GI GENERAL, 1893- 1981

Steven L. Ossad

“Often overlooked even by closely- connected historians, the Cold War issues Bradley dealt with, excluding the Korean War, have never been examined as closely as in Ossad’s book. The research and military analysis are superb, and the author has an excep-tional sense of military history long before and long after the years this book focuses upon.”— Jonathan W. Jordan, author of Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley and the Partnership That Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe

Steven L. Ossad is a historian and biog-rapher, a retired Wall Street technology analyst, and the coauthor of Major General Maurice Rose. Often published in popular and academic military history journals, Ossad is a recipient of a General and Mrs. Matthew Ridgway Military History Award, and an Army Historical Distinguished Writing Award. He lives in New York City.

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STEVEN L. OSSAD is a historian and bi-ographer, a retired Wall Street technology analyst, and the coauthor of Major General Maurice Rose. Often published in popular and academic military history journals, Ossad is a recipient of a General and Mrs. Matthew Ridgway Military History Award and an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. He lives in New York City.

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“Steven L. Ossad opens a window into the mind of one of America’s great 20th century military strategists. Superbly researched and well- written, Omar Nelson Bradley brings to life a quietly brilliant tactician who helped guide America through the perils of World War II, Korea, and the early Cold War years.” — JONATHAN W. JORDAN, author of American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America to Victory in World War II

“Steven L. Ossad’s life of Gen. Omar Bradley is a marvelously illuminating portrait of the last of the great World War II figures to have a full biography. It has been worth the wait! This deeply researched and splendidly written bi-ography is an important contribution to our knowledge and understand-ing of the general who not only led over a million men in the most famous campaigns of the war but who also later became the head of the postwar Veterans Administration and the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” — CARLO D’ESTE, author of Patton: A Genius For War

“Although his legacy has receded from public memory, and despite the fact that leaders like Eisenhower, Montgomery, and Patton are better remembered, Omar N. Bradley was among the most influential figures in the U.S. military during the 20th Century. This under- studied hero’s overlooked importance is explained in this well- written volume with competence and authenticity by author/historian Steven L. Ossad. From troop duty with the 27th Infantry in the Territory of Hawaii in the 1920s, to his tenure as the director of the Veterans Administration from 1945 to 1947, Bradley’s career may not have achieved the same conspicuous notoriety as some of his wartime contemporaries, but it remains no less significant.” — MARTIN K. A. MORGAN, author of The Americans on D- Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion

Omar Bradley rose to the pinnacle of the American military establishment and was the last of the major World War II military leaders to pass from the scene. Usually in-cluded as the final and youngest of the “five stars,” he had the most combat experience of the three American Army Group command-ers in Europe during World War II and was our most important ground commander. Bradley’s postwar career ensures his lega-cy as one of the architects of US Cold War global strategy. These latter contributions, as much as Bradley’s demonstrable World War II leadership, shaped US history and culture in decisive, dramatic, and previously unexamined ways.

The American Military Experience John C. McManus, Series Editor

Portrait on jacket front by Clarence Lamont MacNelly, 1972, courtesy of U.S. Army Center of Military History.

Caption for cartoon on jacket back reads: “At briefing for battle, General Bradley explains First Army plans to the war correspondents. Standing (left to right) are Major Chester B. Hansen, the general’s aide; the late H. B. Knickerbocker; Will Lang of LIFE; Clark Lee of International News Service; Don Whitehead of Associated Press, and Charles C. Wertenbaker, TIME-LIFE chief military correspondent. Seated are the late Ernie Pyle, Hal Boyle of Associated Press and A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker.”

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FROM OLIGARCHY TO REPUBLICANISMTHE GREAT TASK OF RECONSTRUCTION

Forrest A. Nabors

“This path- breaking, passionately argued study frames Reconstruction rightly for the first time since Reconstruction itself. Returning to what politicians North and South actually said and did, Forrest Nabors shows how the Confederacy masked a regime of oligarchy with such slogans as ‘States’ Rights’ and the ‘positive good’ of slavery. He further shows how Reconstruction aimed to settle the Civil War by restoring the rebel states to the genuine republicanism they had espoused during the American Revolution and had pledged

to honor in the Constitution’s republican Guarantee Clause.”— Will Morrisey, author of Self- Government, the American Theme: Presidents of the Founding and Civil War

Forrest A. Nabors is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska following a career as a high- technology business executive. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

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GEORGE WA SH I NGT ON C A RV E RI n H i s O w n Wo r d s S E C O N D E D I T I O N

Edited by Gary R. Kremer

THE FOUNDATION OF THE

Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang,

and the origins of the Cold War

Richard E. Schroeder

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“Kremer’s background and transitional com-ments, along with Carver’s writings, succeed in bringing Carver to life; helping readers to encounter, empathize with, and appreciate this complex, often contradictory man.”— The Journal of Southern History

With a new chapter on the oral history inter-views Dr. Kremer conducted (several years after publication of the first edition) with people who knew Carver personally, and the addition of newly uncovered documents and a bank of impressive photographs of Carver and some of his friends, this second edition

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THE FOUNDATION OF THE CIAHARRY TRUMAN, THE MISSOURI GANG, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WARRichard E. Schroeder

“Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its exten-sive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter.”— David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University, author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy

“Richard Schroeder’s compelling new book reveals how an under- appreciated U.S.

President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended!”— noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton

Richard E. Schroeder is Adjunct Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. A retired Central Intelligence Agency officer and an Advisory Board Member Emeritus of the International Spy Museum, he lives in Washington, D.C.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERIN HIS OWN WORDS, SECOND EDITIONEdited by Gary R. Kremer

of our classic title commemorates the 75th anniversary of Carver’s death on January 5, 2018.

Gary R. Kremer is the Executive Director of The State Historical Society of Missouri and a scholar of African American history. He is the author of several books on the topic, including Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri. He lives in Jefferson City, Missouri.


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LANFORD WILSONE a r ly S t o r i e s , S k e t c h e s , a n d P o e m s

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American drama. These pages, far from being juvenilia, are like walking into

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“A significant addition to the published work of Lanford Wilson, illuminating his work as a playwright and enlarging the scope of his work as a writer, adding a substantial group of stories and poems to Midwest, and particularly Missouri regional literature, and adding an important group of stories to the coming-of-age and LGBTQ literature of the 1950s.” —Brenda Murphy, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Connecticut, author of The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“Lanford Wilson wrote several of the great plays of our time, mixing a keen apprecia-tion of human failings and hopes with often raunchy humor and an effortless lyricism. These qualities are front and center in the early stories and poems featured in this engaging book—fine company in themselves and intriguing for the promise they show of a master to come.” —Jeffrey Sweet, playwright, author of The Value of Names and Kunstler

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, with such cele-brated productions as The Hot l Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley’s Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s small-town Missouri where he grew up. This selec-tion of Wilson’s early work, written between 1955 and 1964 when he was between the ages of 18 and 27, provides a rare look at a young writer developing his style. The stories explore many of the themes Wilson later took up in the theatre, such as sexual identi-ty and the rupture of societies and families. These never-before-published works—part of the manuscript collection donated by Wilson to the University of Missouri—shed light on the roots of some of America’s best-loved plays and are accomplished and evocative works in their own right.2213397808269

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DAVID A. CRESPY is Professor of Playwriting, Acting, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri. He is the author of many plays and two previous books, founder and co-direc-tor of the MU Writing for Performance Program, and founding artistic director of the Missouri Playwrights Workshop and the Mizzou New Play Series. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.

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