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Talks about the lives and times of Missouri's celebrated generals and their roles in American history, focusing in particular on their battlefield exploits. This book is useful for those interested in Missouri history, as well as those interested in military leadership.

Assesses Harry Truman's relationships with the farming community and with politicians of both parties and analyzes the complex problems facing those concerned about the welfare of the American farm. It looks at the "Brannan Plan" to examine the farm policy dilemma and Truman's quest for a long-range agricultural program.

Focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city's black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II. This book tells how various elements of the population worked together to build schools, churches, hospitals, the Paseo YMCA/YWCA, and other institutions that made African American life richer.

Against the backdrop of America in the Vietnam era, amid tales of domestic nerve-gas stockpiling, suburban wife-swapping, murder, and suicide, the author looks at Sephardic history and culture. She tells a story of growing up in Denver during the 1960s.

Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?"" The author seeks the answer to this question by delving into the particulars of his own experience.

Widely acknowledged as Carlos Fuentes's most ambitious novel, ""Terra Nostra"" is a paradigm-shifting work that has generated a virtual cottage industry of scholarly analysis. This book takes a fresh approach to this celebrated novel by considering how giving a gift is like telling a story.

Takes readers into the courtroom to hear a streetwise convict verbally sparring with the DA, then brings us into the confines of the jury room to have us witness nervous chatter over the meaning of evidence. As an antidote, the author suggests that literary and historical texts can help us develop the capacity for prudential judgment.

Written by the president of a zoo, this book presents a personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. It explores the role of zoos in the society and their future as institutions of education, conservation, and entertainment. Along the way, it relates true stories about animals and those who care for them (or abuse them).

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders played critical roles when military force was used and were often instrumental in promoting transatlantic consensus. He offers readers an understanding of the alliance's post-Cold War transformation.

Seeks to rediscover Jesus in relation to the movement beginning to form around him. This book explores the political dimensions of the emerging church. It brings studies of Jesus and Christology into dialogue with social and political sciences. It is useful for courses in Jesus studies, Christology, and Christianity and politics.

Offers a perspective on an often-violent era that witnessed the gradual dismantling of segregation. This book depicts the struggles of Karl E Lutze's own denomination to overcome its earlier accommodation of racism. It captures the real-life education of a prominent clergyman during a critical period in American life.

Presents a memoir that recounts the life of the mind. From childhood in 1920s Nashville to the halls of Vanderbilt University, the author recalls key episodes in his life. He offers observations about depression and war, southern renascence, and civil rights.

In the marriage of fact and fiction, of comedy and pathos, and the music of many voices, the stories of this work reconfirm the judgment of novelist and story writer Richard Bausch. It is concerned with the old verities of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters who come to life and command our attention.

Jessie Benton Fremont who was raised more like a son by her father Thomas Hart Benton (one of Missouri's first two senators), married army explorer John Charles Fremont against her parents' wishes. Although she lived her ambitions largely through her husband's career, she made a name for herself as a writer and a firm opponent of slavery.

Examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S Truman. The author also incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as key figures in each president's administration. The personal styles of each president has also been emphasized.

Captures a bygone era - the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s - through the reminiscences of award-winning ""New York Times"" reporter Gerald Eskenazi. This first-person recollection shows radio's broad impact on his generation and explains how and why it became such a major factor in shaping America and Americans.

Explores Franklin's partnerships and business relationships with printers and their impact on the early American press. Besides analyzing the structure of the network, the author addresses two equally important questions: How did Franklin establish this informal group? And what were his motivations for doing so?

Dealing with formalism as a philosophy in Yeats's works and how that in turn affects both his art and his politics, this book mediates between older, more traditional readings of Yeats's work and theoretical, often antagonistic readings in an effort to restore a balanced perspective. The author centers most of his discussion on the poetry itself.

Addresses a question of perennial interest and significance: what is the nature and value of politics? The book examines six key figures from among the states' rights constitutionalists (Alexander H Stephens, John C Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh) and the moral abolitionists (Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass).

Presents for the first time the collected correspondence between literary giant Ernest Hemingway and his young friend and informal agent A E Hotchner. Spanning the final quarter of Hemingway's life from 1948 to 1961, the book includes more than 160 letters, cables, and cards between these two close friends.

Provides more than sixty-five exquisite black-and-white photographs spanning Oliver Schuchard's thirty-eight years of photography. In addition, Schuchard explains the aesthetic rationale and techniques he used in order to produce these photographs, emphasizing the profound differences between, yet necessary interdependence of, craft and content.

Lucy Ferriss's memoirs blends regional history, national history, and her personal history to create a narrative that follows two time lines. One is the story of her attending an exclusive ball. The other takes place thirty years later as she returns to St Louis to track down some of ACTION's - a militant civil rights group - principal activists.

Examining the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, the author addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as ""individual knowledge projects"" - the writers' attempts to transform raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with others.

Jan S. Prybyla traces the implementation of an idea based on American values - to give people realizable hope, an attainable dream, in a peaceful, secure, and materially comfortable world, a Pax Americana. Prybyla recommends a reevaluation of American relations with those to whom friendship is only utilitarian, in light of terrorism worldwide.

Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering tell the stories of women from all across Europe who left the Old World for Missouri. Drawing heavily on the women's own stories, the book illustrates common elements of their lives without minimizing the diversity and complexity of each individual's experience.

Tsuyoshi Ishihara explores how Twain's work is viewed in a completely different culture. He considers Japanese translations of Twain's books, and the ways in which Japanese culture has shaped Japanese adaptations. Finally, he uses the example of Twain in Japan to delve into American cultural influences on other countries.

The 43th volume of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin consists of Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections, reprinted from the 1989 edition with additional annotations; a glossary of terms used in Voegelin's writings, illustrated with examples from throughout the Collected Works; a volume index; and a cumulative index.

When the Missouri state legislature overrode Governor Bob Holden's veto in 2003 to make conceal-and-carry the law of the land, the Show-Me State became one of the last in the country to adopt this type of law. William Horner chronicles this fight in chronological order.