UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS · 100 PHOTOS. DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7441-0. This is a co-publication of the University of Missouri Press and the . Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESSFALL & WINTER 2019

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ER Since its founding in 1958, the University of Missouri Press has published hundreds of origi-

nal works by, for, and about Missourians, as well as trade books and scholarly monographs in disciplines served by the University of Missouri. Today, our publishing program continues to honor that mission by publishing books that celebrate Missouri history and culture, and with biographies of important Missourians.

The Press also publishes extensively in other fields, including military history, African American studies, literary criticism, journalism, political science, and political philosophy. In addition, we maintain important partnerships with institutions like the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council; and publish series includ-ing Studies in Constitutional Democracy with the Kinder Institute, and Journalism in Perspective with the Missouri School of Journalism.

In this year’s offerings, you’ll find The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, the second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s groundbreaking three- volume biography of Samuel Clemens, described by one reviewer as “the standard biography of [Twain] for our generation.”

This season you’ll also find Kristie Wolferman’s The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art: A History. This book, published in concert with the Nelson- Atkins, offers an engaging and well- researched history of this exceptional museum and includes 100 color and black- and- white photographs from the museum’s extensive collections.

Our catalog also features, on this, the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Gregory Fontenot’s latest book, Loss and Redemption at St. Vith, which provides a gripping narrative of the 7th Armored Division’s critical contribution to U.S. victory during the last German offensive campaign in the West.

Finally, it is with sorrow that I write that earlier this year, Dick Cole, the last of the famed Doolittle Raiders, passed away. You can read about the fascinating life of this remark-able American in Denny Okerstrom’s Dick Cole’s War: Doolittle Raider, Hump Pilot, Air Commando. You can read more about Dick Cole in Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II, also by Okerstrom.

For a complete list of our available titles, I encourage you to visit our website at upress.missouri.edu.

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NOVEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2192-6 | $34.95 T | 368 PP. | 36 PHOTOS 14 MAPS | 5 CHARTS

DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7435-9

Military History / American Military Experience series

LOSS AND REDEMPTION AT ST. VITHTHE 7TH ARMORED DIVISION IN THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

Gregory Fontenot, Col. U.S. Army, Retired

“A magnificent chronicle of the 7th Armored Division’s contribu-tion to American victory in the Battle of the Bulge. It is, at once, a thoroughly informed tactical analysis of the Battle of St. Vith, an insightful study in command, and a thoughtful commentary on the relative capabilities of the American and German armies in late 1944. It should be closely read and deeply pondered by military historians and soldiers alike.”—Harold R. Winton, Professor Emeritus, US Air Force Air University, author of Corps Commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes

“Colonel Fontenot’s work is clear but detailed, and the narra-tive travels fast without losing the breadth or import of the in-formation conveyed. He has the knack of picking the important detail from the picayune, and he eyes the terrain with what is significant for the reader to understand while discarding the ir-relevant background that clouds history written by those who have not lived it.”—Roger Cirillo, Lieutenant Colonel US Army, Retired, US Army Command and General Staff College, author of Ardennes-Alsace: The U.S. Army Campaign of World War II

Gregory Fontenot is a retired Colonel of the U.S. Army and a consultant on threat emulation for Army experimentation. He is the lead author of On Point: The US Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom and author of The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991 (University of Missouri Press, winner of the 2017 Army Historical Foundation award for Unit History). He lives in Lansing, Kansas.

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THE MEMOIRS OF HARRY S. TRUMAN

A READER’S EDITION

EDITED BY

Raymond H. Geselbracht

DECEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2195-7 | $44.95 T | 512 PP.DIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7438-0

THE MEMOIRS OF HARRY S. TRUMANA READER’S EDITION

Edited by Raymond H. Geselbracht

“The former president’s original memoirs are bulky, poorly or-ganized, and overly detailed in a way that too often is not en-lightening. They make for poor reading. Raymond Geselbracht’s abridged edition vastly improves the reading experience and brings coherence to the rather unwieldy original volumes.” —Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama, author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South

This new “Reader’s Edition” of Harry Truman’s memoirs removes the overload of detail and reproduced historical documents, re-duces the bloated cast of characters, clarifies the often confusing balance between chronological and thematic presentation, and corrects some important problems of presentation that made the two volumes of Truman’s memoirs, published in 1955 and 1956, difficult to read and enjoy. This new edition, reduced to half the length of the original text, offers a new generation of readers the thrill of hearing the unique and authentic voice of Harry S. Truman, probably the most important president of the last sev-enty-five years, telling the story of his life, his presidency, and some of the most important years in American history.

Raymond H. Geselbracht served as supervisory archivist and special assistant to the director at the Harry S. Truman Library. He is the co-editor, with David Acheson, of Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971, and the editor of Foreign Aid and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman and The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman. He lives in Bronxville, New York.

US History / Presidential Biography

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When Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opened to the public in 1933, it was viewed as an oasis of culture in a Midwestern town whose image was still largely one of cowboys and steaks. Kristie Wolferman tells the history of the Nelson-Atkins from its founding to the present, and of the people who made it one of the finest art museums in the world.

Wolferman begins by relaying how the trustees of the estates of the reclusive widow Mary Atkins and the family of Kansas City Star newspaper editor William Rockhill Nelson joined forces to establish a museum from scratch, then goes on to consider all of the highly talented people who directed and staffed the Nelson-Atkins along the way, their efforts resulting in many bold inno-vations, among them new collections, grounds, and educational programs and offerings.

With 100 color and black and white photographs, this book will be treasured by all who love and admire this remarkable institu-tion, one that attracts half a million visitors—from across the city, state, nation, and world—each year.

Kristie C. Wolferman taught middle school History and English for twenty years at Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City. The au-thor of The Osage in Missouri and The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri (both published by the University of Missouri Press), she lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and their dog, Nelson.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtA HISTORY

KRISTIE C. WOLFERMAN

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US History / Art Museum Studies

THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ARTA HISTORY

Kristie C. Wolferman

JANUARY | H: 978-0-8262-2197-1 | $34.95 T | 384 PP. 100 PHOTOS


This is a co-publication of the University of Missouri Press and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.



US History / Revolutionary Period / Studies in Constitutional Democracy series

DISESTABLISHMENT AND RELIGIOUS DISSENTCHURCH-STATE RELATIONS IN THE NEW AMERICAN STATES, 1776–1833

Edited by Carl H. Esbeck and Jonathan J. Den Hartog

“This is a magisterial work that will serve as a key reference for our understanding of disestablishment in the United States, which as the authors note is a singular American contribution to ideas and practices of modern governance. It is impossible to see the American constitutional heritage in the same way after reading this book; it shifts the paradigm. Moreover, by setting the record straight this work has immediate relevance for legal debates and court judgments about the meaning of the no es-tablishment principle in American jurisprudence. It demolishes myths about our founding that continue to shape, or warp, con-stitutional thinking and legal judgments.”—Allen D. Hertzke, University of Oklahoma, editor of Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges

This unique volume, comprising twenty-one original essays by eminent historians and political scientists, is a state-by-state ac-count of how the original thirteen states—as well as Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Missouri, and Florida—disestablished religion where there was an established church or codified what over time had evolved into no establishment. Each chapter begins with the colony’s legal association with religion at its founding, and then goes through the events and people bear-ing on law and religion, arriving at revolutionary America and the states’ shifting church-state relations. Drawing on these in-dividual chapters, the editors set out findings that challenge con-ventional wisdom about church and state in the United States.

Carl H. Esbeck is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Jonathan J. Den Hartog is Professor of History at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota.

NOVEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2193-3 | $45.00 S | 448 PP. | 1 MAPDIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7436-6

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THE FEDERALIST FRONTIERSETTLER POLITICS IN THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1783–1840

Kristopher Maulden

The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the na-tion’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s. Relying on government records, private cor-respondence, and newspapers, Kristopher Maulden argues that Federalists originated many of the policies and institutions that helped the young United States government take a leading role in the American people’s expansion and settlement westward across the Appalachians. It was primarily they who placed the U.S. Army at the fore of the white westward movement, creat-ed and executed the institutions to survey and sell public lands, and advocated for transportation projects to aid commerce and further migration into the region. Ultimately, the relationship between government and settlers evolved as citizens raised their expectations of what the federal government should provide, and the region embraced transportation infrastructure and innova-tion in public education.

Historians of early American politics will have a chance to read about Federalists in the Old Northwest, and they will see the ear-ly American state in action in fighting Indians, shaping settler understandings of space and social advancement, and influenc-ing political ideals among the citizens. For historians of the early American West, Maulden’s work demonstrates that the origins of state-led expansion reach much further back in time than gener-ally understood.

Kristopher Maulden, PhD, teaches history at Versailles High School in Jefferson City, Missouri.DECEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2196-4 | $40.00 S | 300 PP. | 5 ILLUS.




“In Faces Like Devils, Matthew J. Hernando provides perhaps the most comprehensive history of Missouri’s most infamous vigi-lante group, the Bald Knobbers. Exploring both fact and fiction, myth and hearsay, this book paints an accurate portrait of the group that Harold Bell Wright made legendary in his 1907 novel The Shepherd of the Hills. It is an essential work for anyone inter-ested in post-Reconstruction-era Missouri.”—Missouri Life

In the 1880s the Bald Knobbers terrorized communities in the Ozarks and attracted the attention of both state and federal authorities. Sensationalized newspaper accounts of their ex-ploits reached across the country, helping to form an image of the Ozarks as a violent and backward area. In contrast, the Bald Knobbers represented themselves as an alliance of law-abiding citizens dedicated to fighting rampant crime and corruption. At their height, they numbered an estimated nine hundred men, making them one of the largest vigilante organizations in the United States at the time.

Matthew Hernando sifts through the folklore and myth sur-rounding the Bald Knobbers to produce an accurate history of their rise and fall. Despite being one of America’s largest and most famous vigilante groups, the Bald Knobbers have not previously been examined in depth. Hernando’s exhaustive research, which includes a plethora of state and federal court records, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts, remedies that lack.

Matthew J. Hernando is Instructor of History and Government at Ozark Technical Community College, Hollister, Missouri.

US History / 19th Century / Local and Midwest

FACES LIKE DEVILSTHE BALD KNOBBER VIGILANTES IN THE OZARKS

Matthew J. Hernando

SEPTEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2198-8 | $25.95 T | 336 PP. | 10 ILLUS.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

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“Thanks to the labors of Clifford and Okura, it will be difficult to look again at the last three weeks of peace in quite the same way.”—H-Net

On December 7, 1941, the course of US history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the US Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks between Japan and America and spare his country the loss he knew would occur if a war began. But as he reported, “Working for peace is not as simple as starting a war.” For more than seventy years, many have unfairly viewed Kurusu’s visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Editors J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura seek to dispel this myth with their edition of Kurusu’s memoir.

Kurusu published his personal memoir in Japanese in 1952, de-scribing his efforts to prevent war between the two nations, his total lack of knowledge regarding the Pearl Harbor attack, and what “might have been” had he been successful in his endeavor for peace. However, the information contained in his memoir was unavailable to those not fluent in Japanese. With the discov-ery of Kurusu’s own English translation, Clifford and Okura have used both the Japanese and English texts and added an introduc-tion and annotations to Kurusu’s story, which can finally be told to a wider audience.

J. Garry Clifford (1942–2014) was an award-winning his-torian and Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. Masako R. Okura is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia.

Military History / World War II / Personal Memoir

THE DESPERATE DIPLOMATSABURO KURUSU’S MEMOIR OF THE WEEKS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR

Edited by J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura

NOVEMBER | H: 978-0-8262-2201-5 | $21.95 T | 176 PP.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE



“Among Wuster’s most significant contributions is his reminding us that Twain’s reputation as a serious literary artist—the Mark Twain, in other words, that many readers revere today—really did not emerge until the 1880s. Mark Twain, American Humorist is a meritorious piece of scholarship and takes its place among the two or three most important studies of Mark Twain and humor to have appeared in the last fifty years.”—Mark Twain Journal

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Twain be-came the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and de-based laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

Tracy Wuster teaches writing to electrical and computer engi-neers at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the executive director of the American Humor Studies Association. He is the editor of the online humor studies publication Humor in America and the co-director of the Humor in America Project at the University of Texas.

Literary Criticism / Humor / Mark Twain and His Circle series

MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN HUMORISTTracy Wuster

AUGUST | H: 978-0-8262-2199-5 | $35.00 S | 504 PP.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE

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“Ryn’s greatest strength is his ability to assimilate the phenome-na of current cultural and political life into meaningful patterns of intellectual history and then to detect and expose fashionable and destructive deviations from the Western tradition. His larger purpose is to preserve and perpetuate that tradition amidst in-evitable change—a mission he pursues with poise, insight, and catholic spirit.”—Chronicles

A great challenge of the twenty-first century is the danger of con-flict between people and cultures. Claes Ryn explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible. Using wide-ranging ex-amples, he presents an argument that is interdisciplinary in its approach, discussing not only political ideas, but also fiction, drama, and other arts.

What can predispose humans to mutual respect and peace? One Western philosophical tradition maintains that the only way to genuine unity is for historical diversity to yield to universality. A very different Western tradition denies the existence of uni-versality altogether—a view that leaves unanswered the question as to how conflict between diverse groups might be averted. Ryn questions both of these traditions, arguing for the potential union of universality and particularity. He contends that the two need not be enemies, but that cultivating individual and national particularities is potentially compatible with strengthening and enriching our common humanity.

Claes G. Ryn is Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Intellectual History / Political Philosophy / Multiculturalism

A COMMON HUMAN GROUNDUNIVERSALITY AND PARTICULARITY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD

Claes G. Ryn

AUGUST | H: 978-0-8262-2203-9 | $21.95 S | 168 PP.DIGITAL EDITION AVAILABLE



Literary Biography / Mark Twain and His Circle series

THE LIFE OF MARK TWAINTHE MIDDLE YEARS, 1871–1891

Gary Scharnhorst

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

Both volumes published with the generous support of the Missouri Humanities Council and The State Historical Society of Missouri

The Life of Mark Twain is the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in more than a century and has al-ready been hailed as the definitive Twain biography.

“A lively, richly detailed, and sharply perceptive biography.”—Kirkus (starred)

“Scharnhorst’s thorough and careful research results in a schol-arly biography that will undoubtedly be considered definitive.” —Publishers Weekly

“Gary Scharnhorst’s monumental biography sets a new standard for comprehensiveness. This will prove to be the standard biogra-phy 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 roll-ing happily through this consummate American adventure.” —Bruce Michelson, author of Printer’s Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution

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.

ALSO AVAILABLE THE EARLY YEARS 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

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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

AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2183- 4 | $45.00 S | 450 PP. | 4 MAPSDIGITAL EDITION: 978-0-8262-7425-0

US History / Economics / Studies in Constitutional Democracy series

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“The title of Mr. Browning’s fine and formidable history only hints at its scope. “The Panic of 1819” is, in fact, a political, social and financial history of the U.S., before, during and after America’s first great depression.”— Wall Street Journal

“This is an excellent book on a neglected episode of American eco-nomic and financial history.”— Richard Sylla, New York University, author of The American Capital Market, 1846–1914: A Study of the Effects of Public Policy on Economic Management

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking cri-sis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an eco-nomic 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 phenom-enon 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 turn-ing points of American history, few Americans today have even heard of the Panic of 1819.

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.

AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2186- 5 | $35.00 S | 288 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

AVAILABLE | 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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“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 assistant professor of critical journalism studies at the University of California, San Diego.


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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.AVAILABLE | H: 978- 0- 8262- 2187- 2 | $50.00 S | 262 PP.


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.

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One of Us: A Family’s Life with AutismMark OsteenP: 978- 0- 8262- 2190- 2 | $21.95 T

East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to MorrisonYoshinobu HakutaniP: 978- 0- 8262- 2182- 7 | $24.95 S

The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939–1945Lisa L. OssianP: 978- 0- 8262- 2176- 6 | $24.95 S

The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New MillenniumPaul Edward GottfriedP: 978- 0- 8262- 2175- 9 | $21.95 S

Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The CRISIS, and American HistoryEdited by Amy Helene Kirschke and Phillip Luke SinitiereP: 978-0-8262-2093-6 | $34.95 S

Meuse-Argonne Diary: A Division Commander in World War IWilliam M. WrightEdited with an Introduction by Robert H. FerrellP: 978-0-8262-2191-9 | $22.95 S

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DICK COLE’S WARDOOLITTLE RAIDER, HUMP PILOT, AIR COMMANDODennis R. Okerstrom

Dick Cole long stood in the spotlight of fame that followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Participating in Doolittle’s Raid and crash-landing in China might have been enough for some, but Cole went on to India and was assigned to Ferrying Command, flying the Hump (the Himalayas) for a year in the world’s worst weather, with inadequate aircraft, few aids to navigation, and inaccurate maps. He sur-vived this dangerous assignment and rotated home in 1943. A few months later, Cole was

recruited for the First Air Commandos and he returned to India to participate in Project 9, the aerial invasion of Burma.

Dennis R. Okerstrom is Professor of English at Park University, a certified flight instruc-tor, and the author of four books including The Final Mission of Bottoms Up: A World War II Pilot’s Story (University of Missouri Press). He owns and flies a restored 1942 Army scout plane and is the recipient of nu-merous awards for scholarship and teaching. He lives in Independence, Missouri.

PROJECT 9THE BIRTH OF THE AIR COMMANDOS IN WORLD WAR IIDennis R. Okerstrom

“This is a splendid book about a little-re-ported-on corner of World War II geog-raphy and forces engaged in a do-or-die situation in Burma and India in 1943-1944. The book deals with some unforgettable figures. General ‘Hap’ Arnold and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten lead the list, with brilliant, if eccentric, British Brigadier Orde Wingate close behind. Wingate’s scheme for taking the fight to the Japanese in Burma was the catalyst for the formation of the U.S. Army Air Forces ‘Air Commandos’.”—Air Power History

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Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Based on review of hundreds of documents as well as interviews with sur-viving Air Commandos, this is the history of a colorful, autonomous, and highly effective military unit that included some of the most recognizable names of the era.

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“Thoroughly explores the parade of Southern-based rural sitcoms on CBS in the 1960s that dominated the ratings and left a lasting imprint on the televised landscape. Extending well beyond the shows them-selves, Eskridge thoughtfully articulates what the rise and fall of these programs reveal about the era’s shifting racial and political perceptions and realities, and how their demise marked a fundamental reimag-ining of the television audience. Anyone interested in 1960s television and culture and the enduring appeal of the televised rural Southerner will find this carefully

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researched and engagingly written book a valuable read.”—Anthony Harkins, Western Kentucky University, author of Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon

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

“Reveals an intensive depth into the devel-opment and impact of women’s activism in a critical midwestern city. The work offers a unique perspective with rich details that challenges typical works in this field that often maintain a narrow focus on eastern cities.”—Kyle Anthony, University of Saint Mary

“Hanzlick establishes the importance of women’s political activism to the history of the urban Midwest and Kansas City in par-ticular. He reminds us of the critical role of well-researched, locally based case studies in

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testing our assumptions about the ways that people claimed power in the past.”—John W. McKerley, University of Iowa Labor Center

K. David Hanzlick is Director of Program and Development for Sheffield Place and an adjunct faculty member at Rockhurst University and Park University. He lives in Overland Park, Kansas.



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“Literary history is first and foremost a story—in this case, the story of three writers pulled to the political left in the 1930s by different forces. The Pull of Politics is a timely, refreshing reminder of how individuals must negotiate their own ideas and allegiances with collective political movements. Milton Cohen’s book is an excellent compara-tive study of how Steinbeck, Wright, and Hemingway struggled through the era’s messy politics to achieve their landmark novels of 1940.”—Alex Vernon, Hendrix College, author of Hemingway’s Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War

“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 idea that the three branches of U.S. government are equal in power is taught in school, proclaimed by politicians, and referenced in the media. But, as David Siemers shows, that idea is a myth, neither

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THE PULL OF POLITICS STEINBECK, WRIGHT, HEMINGWAY AND THE LEFT IN THE LATE 1930sMilton A. Cohen

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

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THE MYTH OF COEQUAL BRANCHESRESTORING THE CONSTITUTION’S SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONSDavid J. Siemers

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intended by the Founders nor true in practice. Siemers explains how adherence to this myth normalizes a politics of gridlock, in which the action of any branch can be checked by the reaction of any other.

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



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BREAKING BABE RUTHBaseball’s Campaign Against Its Biggest Star

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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 groundbreaking 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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“During the Gilded Age, the drama of farmer, labor, and populist politics unfold-ed with extraordinary force in the rural, impoverished, and racially fractured state of Arkansas. Matthew Hild brings to bear his superb skills as an historian to explore this drama in all of its at times brutal complexi-ty.”—Charles Postel, author of The Populist Vision

“This book was genuinely a joy to read, and the author strikes just the right balance—cel-ebrating the victories working-class organi-zations achieved while never minimizing the

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THE RISE, DECLINE, AND LEGACY OF POPULISM AND WORKING-CLASS PROTESTMatthew Hild

astounding odds they faced when confront-ing entrenched power.”—Guy Lancaster, author of Racial Cleansing in Arkansas, 1883–1924

Arkansas Historical Association J. G. Ragsdale Book Award, 2019

Matthew Hild teaches history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of West Georgia and is the author of Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.



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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 biogra-pher, a retired Wall Street technology analyst, and the coauthor of Major General Maurice Rose: World War II’s Greatest Forgotten Commander. 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.

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESSColumbia | upress.missouri.edu

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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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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

“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

This second edition of our classic title includes a new chapter on the oral history interviews Dr. Kremer conducted (several years after publication of the first edition) with people who knew Carver personally, and the addition of newly uncovered docu-

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERIN HIS OWN WORDS, SECOND EDITION

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ments and a bank of impressive photographs of Carver and some of his friends.

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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BEFORE JOURNALISM SCHOOLSHow Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules

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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF JOURNALISMTHE PULPIT VERSUS THE PRESS, 1833–1923Ronald R. Rodgers

“Ronald Rodgers brings a strong back-ground to this book: more than twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor, an intellectual curiosity about the past, and a proven track record as an astute histori-an. Using both the regular press and the religious press, and focusing on the ethics of journalism, he argues convincingly that looking at the period under study can lead to a better understanding of journalism’s role in society today. This approach breaks significant new ground in a highly interest-ing book.”—Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism

Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narra-tives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its opposi-tion 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.

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

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HOW GILDED AGE REPORTERS LEARNED THE RULESRandall 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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Creating Identity in the

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WE MET IN PARISGrace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

JOAN E. HOWARD

From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman

Edited and with an Introduction byArmin Mattes

Francis J. Grund ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA

Aristocracy in America: From the Sketch-Book of a German NoblemanFrancis J. Grund, Edited and with an introduction by Armin MattesH: 978-0-8262-2156-8 | $40.00 S

“We Met in Paris”: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite YourcenarJoan E. HowardH: 978-0-8262-2155-1 | $45.00 S

Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional AutobiographyHeidi L. PenningtonH: 978-0-8262-2157-5 | $50.00 S

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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“I’ll never forget seeing Burn This on Broadway way back when—what struck me is how Wilson, supposedly the sweetest of playwrights, could write something so strict and tough-minded. It felt like he was teach-ing Mamet how to write a play. Ferocious indeed! He was however a true outsider artist (like so many of those he loved and collected). Indeed, he was a magnificent crystal with many sides.” —Mac Wellman, Professor of Playwriting, Brooklyn College, author of Linda Perdido

“Hail David Crespy for his lovingly edited treasure trove of the early work of

the great Lanford Wilson. This collection, an amazing eye into the heart and

mind of this essential 20th century playwright, is a feast for every student of

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

a hall of mirrors where we see the great plays illuminated by their roots. An

invaluable work.”

—John Guare, playwright, author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of

Separation, and A Free Man of Color

“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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Cover photograph courtesy of James D. Gossage.

Back cover photograph courtesy of Lanford Wilson Collection, Special Collections and Rare Books, Uni-versity of Missouri Libraries, Lanford Wilson Estate.

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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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of ReligionJohannes MorsinkH: 978-0-8262-2084-4 | $65.00 S

The Subversive Art of Zelda FitzgeraldDeborah PikeH: 978-0-8262-2104-9 | $45.00 S



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The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, The Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold WarRichard E. SchroederH: 978-0-8262-2137-7 | $24.95 T

The 1st Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991Gregory FontenotH: 978-0-8262-2118-6 | $36.95 T

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish: Old-Time Fiddlers in MissouriHoward Wight MarshallH: 978-0-8262-1994-7 | $29.95 T

Fiddler’s Dream: Old Time, Swing, and Bluegrass Fiddling in Twentieth-Century MissouriHoward Wight MarshallH: 978-0-8262-2121-6 | $29.95 T

Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle FortuneMary Jo IgnoffoP: 978-0-8262-1983-1 | $24.95 T

From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of ReconstructionForrest A. NaborsH: 978-0-8262-2135-3 | $45.00 S



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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End SegregationJames Endersby and William T. HornerH: 978-0-8262-2085-1 | $36.95 T

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Thomas Hart Benton: Discoveries & InterpretationsHenry AdamsH: 978-0-8262-2050-9 | $50.00 S

The Science of Near-Death ExperiencesEdited by John C. HaganH: 978-0-8262-2103-2 | $29.95 T

The Wild Mammals of MissouriThird Revised EditionCharles W. Schwartz, Elizabeth R. SchwartzP: 978-0-8262-2088-2 | $49.95 T

Bureaucracy in America: The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional GovernmentJoseph PostellH: 978-0-8262-2123-0 | $45.00 S

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The Struggle for the Soul of JournalismRonald R. Rodgers

Finalist, Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award

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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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2213607808269

ISBN 978-0-8262-2136-090000

“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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