University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
by Brian R. Dirck
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
As "Savior of the Union" and the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the "white man's president" has been used by some detractors as proof of his fundamentally...
by Charles W. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
As controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century, this book by the distinguished historian...
by Carl von Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. The others, historical analyses of the wars that roiled Europe from 1789 through 1815, informed and shaped Clausewitz’s...
Battleground Alaska
Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
No American state is more antistatist than Alaska. And no state takes in more federal money per capita, which accounts for a full third of Alaska’s economy. This seeming paradox underlies the story Stephen Haycox tells in Battleground Alaska, a history of the fraught dynamic between development...
Resilient America
Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and race—all...
Supreme Court Expansion of Presidential Power
Unconstitutional Leanings
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In the fourth of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787, John Jay warned of absolute monarchs who “will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it.” More than two centuries later, are single executives making unilateral decisions any more trustworthy? And have the checks on executive...
Headlights on the Prairie
Essays on Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
At the long-term care facility where Robert Rebein’s father lands after a horrific car crash, a shadow box hangs next to each room, its contents suggesting something of the occupant’s life. In Headlights on the Prairie, Rebein has created a literary shadow box of sorts, a book in which moments...
Truman's Triumphs
The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The Chicago Tribune headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. But, as Andrew Busch reveals, there is much more to this story than the well-worn image of a victorious and beaming President Harry Truman parading the newspaper's...
The Modern American Presidency
Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
When the first edition of this book appeared in 2003, it was chosen as a Main Selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and History Book Club and quickly became the standard work on the modern American presidency—from William McKinley through William Jefferson Clinton. In that original edition,...
Murder in Mississippi
United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2004
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like...
Father, Son, and Constitution
How Justice Tom Clark and Attorney General Ramsey Clark Shaped American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Langum Prize, Honorable Mention
When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job...
The Jury in America
Triumph and Decline
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The jury trial is one of the formative elements of American government, vitally important even when Americans were still colonial subjects of Great Britain. When the founding generation enshrined the jury in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were not inventing something new, but protecting...
Obscenity Rules
Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
For some, he was "America's leading smut king," hauled into court repeatedly over thirty years for peddling obscene publications through the mail. But when Samuel Roth appealed a 1956 conviction, he forced the Supreme Court to finally come to grips with a problem that had plagued both American...
Corinth 1862
Siege, Battle, Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
**Fletcher Pratt Award
McLemore Prize**
In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy—perhaps in all the South—than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi.
Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of Union forces in the Western Theater,...