University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Journeys to the Edge
In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying...
If You Were Only White
The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
If You Were Only White 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”...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George...
"We Met in Paris"
Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar,...
Not at All What One Is Used To
The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Born in 1915 to one of New England’s elite wealthy families, Isabella Gardner was expected to follow a certain path in life—one that would take her from marriageable debutante to proper society lady. But that plan was derailed when at age eighteen, Isabella caused a drunk-driving accident. Her...
Damn Near White
An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair, she spent years struggling to convince others that she was black. Her family’s prominence set Carolyn’s experiences even further apart from those of the average African American. Her father and...
The Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment...
Choosing Truman
The Democratic Convention of 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2000
As Franklin D. Roosevelt's health deteriorated in the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, Democratic leaders confronted a dire situation. Given the inevitability of the president's death during a fourth term, the choice of a running mate for FDR was of profound importance....
Before Journalism Schools
How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Randall Sumpter questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late nineteenth century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than fifty reporters, he argues that cub reporters could and did access...
by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
To many rural Iowans, the stock market crash on New York’s Wall Street in October 1929 seemed an event far removed from their lives, even though the effects of the crash became all too real throughout the state. From 1929 to 1933, the enthusiastic faith that most Iowans had in Iowan President...
by James Landers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Today, monthly issues of Cosmopolitan magazine scream out to readers from checkout counters and newsstands. With bright covers and bold, sexy headlines, this famous periodical targets young, single women aspiring to become the quintessential “Cosmo girl.” Cosmopolitan is known for its vivacious...
Guillaume
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after suffering a stroke, Guillaume—perhaps best known as television’s Benson—began this autobiography with award-winning author and collaborator David Ritz.
The book...
Black Chicago's First Century
1833-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements...
by Ned Stuckey-French
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old...