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  • - Life of Rose Wilder Lane
    av William Holtz
    545

    Drawing on letters and diaries, this biography details Rose Wilder Lane's life and highlights her troubled relationship with an apparently cold and manipulative mother. It throws light on the writing of the ""Little House"" books.

  • - Doing Videojournalism in the 21st Century
    av G. Smith
    675

    Details the controversy, history, and rise of this news genre, but its main objective is to show aspiring videojournalists how to learn the craft. While other textbooks depict the conventional reporter-and-videographer model, Going Solo innovates by teaching readers how to successfully juggle the skills traditionally required of two different people.

  • - The Autobiographies of William Wells Brown
    av William Wells Brown
    579

    Growing up as a slave in an urban area of Missouri allowed William Wells Brown to live a life that was different from that of the typical plantation slave. This book reprints two of Brown's best-known writings, ""Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave"" and ""My Southern Home"".

  • - Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class
    av Larry Gragg
    799

    Prior to the Quakers' large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. Here Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox's admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life. In this volume, Larry Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions.

  • av Allen D. Carden
    459

    With a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. It helped teach midwesterners to read music using shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England.

  • - A Slave Narrative
    av Mildred D. Johnson
    385,-

    This is an account of the years 1820 to 1865 in the life of Malindy, a freeborn Cherokee who was unlawfully enslaved as a child by a Franklin County, Missouri, farmer. Married to a freedman, Malindy gave birth to five children in slavery - creating a family she would fight her whole life to keep together.

  • - The Life of Leroy ""Satchel"" Paige
    av Donald Spivey
    479

    Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers.

  • - 170 Years inside ""The Walls
    av Jamie Rasmussen
    329,-

  • - Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
    av Heather Lanier
    399

  • - Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920-1990
    av John Langdale
    945

    Tells the story of traditionalist conservatism and its boundaries in twentieth-century America. Because this time period encompasses both the rise of the modern conservative movement and the demise of southern regional distinctiveness, it affords an ideal setting both for observing the potentiality of American conservatism and for understanding the fate of the traditionalist "man of letters".

  • av Amy M. Ryan
    579

    Taking seriously Mark Twain's life as a citizen of urban landscapes - from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna and the suburban utopia of Hartford - these essays represent Twain both as a product of urban frontiers and as a prophet of American modernity, situating him squarely within the context of an evolving international and cosmopolitan community.

  • - Violence and Reconciliation o the Kansas-Missouri
    av Jeremy Neely
    625

    The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. Here the author examines the significance of the border war on both sides of the line and offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of its origins, meanings, and consequences.

  • - Cross-Dressing and Transgression
    av Linda A. Morris
    495

    Huckleberry Finn dressing as a girl is a famously comic scene in Mark Twain's novel but hardly out of character - for the author, that is. This book explores Mark Twain's use of cross-dressing across his career by exposing the substantial cast of characters who masqueraded as members of the opposite sex or who otherwise defied gender expectations.

  • - The Cultural Reception of an American Icon
    av Tsuyoshi Ishihara
    349,-

    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.

  • - Or Mark Twain's Road to Bankruptcy
    av Charles H. Gold
    495

    Charles H. Gold provides a complete description of Samuel Clemens' business relationships with Charles L. Webster and James W. Paige during the 1880s. Gold analyses how these affected Clemens and the development of his Mark Twain persona and work.

  • av Joseph Csicsila
    399,-

    One hundred years after its writing, Mark Twain's 'The Mysterious Stranger' remains a literary enigma. Twain's last significant full-length work of fiction and one of his most deeply philosophical works on the nature of truth and the human condition, it was unfinished at his death and has gained a reputation as an experimental text.

  • - A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China
    av Nancy McCabe
    399

    Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter was "going home". Part travelogue, part memoir, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family.

  • - Major League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St Louis
     
    479

    An in-depth analysis that examines the infancy of major-league baseball in St. Louis during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

  • - Explorations in Modern Political Thought
     
    865

    Evaluates one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time by examining his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy, from Kant to Derrida.

  • - Racial Issues, Press and Propaganda in the Cold War
    av Richard Lentz
    705

  • - The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzieres
    av Carl J. Ekberg
    865

    A narrative of the remarkable life of Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzieres, who fled revolutionary France in 1790 and trekked to the America. There he founded the city of New Bourbon and became its Spanish commandant, promoted westward settlement across the Mississippi, and, perhaps most importantly wrote extensive commentaries on the Mississippi frontier at the close of the colonial era.

  • av Mary Collins Barile
    335

    An introduction to Missouri's chunk of Santa Fe Trail, providing an account of the trail's historical and cultural significance. It tells how the route evolved, stitched together from Indian paths, trappers' traces, and wagon roads, and how the experience of traveling the Santa Fe Trail varied even within Missouri.

  • av David J. Siemers
    495

    Explores the connection between philosophy and practical politics through a study of six American chief executives: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton.

  • av Scott Philip Segrest
    1 039

    Traces the history and explores the personal and social meaning of common sense as understood especially in American thought and as reflected specifically in the writings of three paradigmatic thinkers: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James.

  • - The Resurgence of Mizzou Football
    av Darin Wernig
    479

    In 2007, it had been nearly fifty years since Mizzou's football program was ranked number one in the country and in contention for college football's national championship. The 2007 and 2008 Tigers proved nothing short of unforgettable. This book combines recaps of games with gridiron photos to look back at the 2007 and 2008 Missouri seasons.

  • - A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City
    av Richard A. Serrano
    479

    On the night of his arrest for public intoxication, James Patrick Lyons was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. In his quest to uncover the details of his grandfather's life, the author re-creates the flavor of mid-twentieth-century Kansas City.

  • - Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust
    av Jacques Cukierkorn & Bill Tammeus
    459

    In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more Jews than any other country at the start of World War II and location of six German-built death camps, the punishment was immediate execution. This book tells the stories of Polish Holocaust survivors and their rescuers.

  • - Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943
    av Henry T. Gorrell
    655

    Covers early Axis intervention in Spain and their tests of new weaponry and blitzkrieg tactics at the cost of millions of Spanish lives. This work provides eyewitness impressions of what war looked, sounded, and felt like to soldiers on the ground.

  • - A Philosophical Anthropology
    av Thomas Langan
    865

    What is 'human being'? This work offers a fresh understanding of this central question of our existence, turning to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology to help us understand who we are as individuals and communities and what makes us act they way we do.

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