University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Last King of the Sports Page
The Life and Career of Jim Murray
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Part crusader, part comedian, Jim Murray was a once-in-a-generation literary talent who just happened to ply his trade on newsprint, right near the box scores and race results. During his lifetime, Murray rose through the ranks of journalism, from hard-bitten 1940s crime reporter, to national Hollywood...
by Scott Philip Segrest
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, seminal thinkers have declared “common sense” essential for moral discernment and civilized living. Yet the story of commonsense philosophy is not well known today.
In America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense,...
The Jester and the Sages
Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time—Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah...
Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood
Partners in Command
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Theodore Roosevelt was a man of wide interests, strong opinions, and intense ambition for both himself and his country. When he met Leonard Wood in 1897, he recognized a kindred spirit. Moreover, the two men shared a zeal for making the United States an imperial power that would challenge Great Britain...
From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama
African American Political Success, 1966-2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American to run for a public office or to face the complexities of race in a political campaign. For over a century,...
The Opinions of Mankind
Racial Issues, Press, and Progaganda in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
During the Cold War, the Soviets were quick to publicize any incident of racial hostility in the United States. Since violence by white Americans against minorities was the perfect foil to America’s claim to be defenders of freedom, news of these occurrences was exploited to full advantage by the...
My Grandfather's Prison
A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City’s skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was...
The Legacy of the Great War
Ninety Years On
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants.
In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars...
They Were Just People
Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Hitler’s attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to...
by Cyprian Clamorgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves,...
The Prodigal Daughter
Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The 1950s and 1960s were years of shifting values and social changes that did not sit well with many citizens of Richmond, Virginia, and in particular with one conservative family, a staunchly southern mother and father and their two daughters. A powerful evocation of time and place, this memoir—a...
The Sizzler
George Sisler, Baseball's Forgotten Great
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
“Gorgeous George” Sisler, a left-handed first baseman, began his major-league baseball career in 1915 with the St. Louis Browns. During his sixteen years in the majors, he played with such baseball luminaries as Ty Cobb (who once called Sisler “the nearest thing to a perfect ballplayer”),...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the...
Knut Hamsun Remembers America
Essays and Stories, 1885-1949
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
When Americans remember him at all, they no doubt think of Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) as the author of Hunger or as the Norwegian who, along with Vidkun Quisling, betrayed his country by supporting the Nazis during World War II. Yet Hamsun, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1920 for his novel The Growth...