Lsu Press: 854 books
Call Me Coach
A Life in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
When LSU head football coach Paul Dietzel saw Billy Cannon field an Ole Miss punt on LSU's own eleven yard line on a stifling Halloween night in 1959, his shouts of "No, no, no!" turned to "Go, go, go!" as Cannon eluded tackler after tackler, sending fans in Tiger Stadium into a frenzy and earning...
Billy Cannon
A Long, Long Run
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Billy Cannon’s name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for Louisiana State University, the Southeastern Conference, and college football. LSU’s only Heisman Trophy winner, Cannon led the Tigers to a national championship in 1958, igniting a love of the game in Louisiana...
Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities
Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
We accomplish extraordinary things when we do ordinary things together. This heartfelt and hopeful conviction led LSU professor Marybeth Lima to begin the LSU Community Playground Project in an attempt to involve her students in the larger Baton Rouge community. Fifteen years and over seven hundred...
The Air's Accomplices
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
BRENDAN GALVIN is the author of sixteen poetry books, including eight published by LSU Press, of which Habitat (2005) was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has received many other honors, including the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.
The...
Impossible Bottle
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Claudia Emerson published six poetry collections with LSU Press, including Late Wife, Secure the Shadow, and The Opposite House. A professor of English and member of the creative writing faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Emerson served as the poet laureate of Virginia and won...
Negotiating in the Press
American Journalism and Diplomacy, 1918-1919
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Negotiating in the Press offers a new interpretation of an otherwise dark moment in American journalism. Rather than emphasize the familiar story of lost journalistic freedom during World War I, Joseph R. Hayden describes the press's newfound power in the war's aftermath -- that seminal moment when...
Ed Kennedy's War
V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as the Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters,...
On the Front Lines of the Cold War
An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In the years following World War II, the United States suffered its most severe military and diplomatic reverses in Asia while Mao Zedong laid the foundation for the emergence of China as a major economic and military world power. As a correspondent for the International News Service, the Associated...
Uncovering Paris
Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Époque
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
From 1889 to 1914 nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the female body, and the rise of urban nightlife. In particular, artists’ balls and music halls provided creative spaces in which women, artists, impresarios,...
Journalism's Roving Eye
A History of American Foreign Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take...
A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission
Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic...
by Chester G. Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
While numerous accounts exist of President Abraham Lincoln's often-troubled dealings with either his cabinet or his generals, Chester G. Hearn's illuminating history provides the first broad synthesis of Lincoln's complex relationship with both groups. As such, it casts new light on much of the behind-the-scenes...
Freeing the Presses
The First Amendment in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
"A thoughtful, provocative, and timely account of the meaning of a free press in the United States." -- American Journal of Political Science
Most Americans consider a free press essential to democratic society -- -either as an independent watchdog against governmental abuse of power or as a wide-open...
Inventing Baseball Heroes
Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities -- Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. While other scholars have...