University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Soldiers and Statesmen
Reflections on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally "half American"? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering...
American Girls, Beer, and Glenn Miller
GI Morale in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"Cooke's examination of the Special Services and PX System during World War II, a subject previously overlooked by scholars, shows that these goods and services kept the armed forces' spirits up under the alienating conditions of global war."—Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel:...
Shades of Blue and Gray
An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades,...
Yankee Warhorse
A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was...
Rafts and Other Rivercraft
in Huckleberry Finn
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The raft that carries Huck and Jim down the Mississippi River is often seen as a symbol of adventure and freedom, but the physical specifics of the raft itself are rarely considered. Peter Beidler shows that understanding the material world of Huckleberry Finn, its limitations and possibilities, is...
A Friendship That Lasted a Lifetime
The Correspondence Between Alfred Schutz and Eric Voegelin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Scholarly correspondence can be as insightful as scholarly work itself, as it often documents the motivating forces of its writers’ intellectual ideas while illuminating their lives more clearly. The more complex the authors’ scholarly works and the more troubled the eras in which they lived,...
by Wayne H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its desire for international glory, Spain also was the only European country that continued to use...
Madam Chairman
Mary Louise Smith and the Republican Revival after Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
For much of her career Mary Louise Smith stood alone as a woman in a world of politics run by men. After devoting over two decades of her life to politics, she eventually became the first, and only, woman chairman of the Republican National Committee. Suzanne O’Dea examines Smith’s rise and fall...
Farewell to Prosperity
Wealth, Identity, and Conflict in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Farewell to Prosperity is a provocative, in-depth study of the Liberal and Conservative forces that fought each other to shape American political culture and character during the nation’s most prosperous years. The tome’s central theme is the bitter struggle to fashion post–World War II society...
Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics
Letters to the Editor
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Whether he was taking us along for a journey down the Mississippi with a couple of runaways or delivering speeches on the importance of careful lying, Mark Twain had an innate ability to captivate readers and listeners alike with his trademark humor and sarcasm. Twain never lacked for material, either,...
by Charlie Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Film star Charlie Chaplin spent February 1931 through June 1932 touring Europe, during which time he wrote a travel memoir entitled “A Comedian Sees the World.” This memoir was published as a set of five articles in Women’s Home Companion from September 1933 to January 1934 but until now had...
by Johannes Morsink
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Repulsed by evil Nazi practices and desiring to create a better world after the devastation of World War II, in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Because of the secular imprint of this text, it has faced a series of challenges from the world’s...
by Jo Ann Trogdon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In 1798—more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes—William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him...
The Democrats
From Jefferson to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
Interlacing humor into his ongoing narrative, Robert Allen Rutland provides in The Democrats a readable, balanced account of how the Democratic party was founded, evolved, nearly died, and came back in the twentieth century, flourishing as a political melting pot despite numerous setbacks. This updated...