University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
by Michael Anderegg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. "If this be so," Walt Whitman wrote, "I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did...
Jacqueline Kennedy
First Lady of the New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
In a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that has remained intact for more than a half-century. Even now, long after her death in 1994, she remains a figure of enduring—and endearing—interest. Yet, while innumerable books have focused on the...
by J. David Alvis, Jeremy D. Bailey, A01
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
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The U.S. Constitution is clear on the appointment of executive officials: the president nominates, the Senate approves. But on the question of removing those officials, the Constitution is silent—although that silence has not discouraged strenuous efforts to challenge,...
Trails
Toward a New Western History
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution.
The Trails Conference in Santa Fe, a 1989 gathering organized by “new” western historian Patricia...
The American Elsewhere
Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism,...
Federalism on Trial
State Attorneys General and National Policymaking in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system," Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932, "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." It is one...
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
At the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2: August 1863-April 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupted, four-year chronicle by a mature, keenly observant clerk in the War Department of the Confederacy, the wartime diary of John Beauchamp Jones was...
by Sotirios Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Americans err in thinking that while their politics may be ailing, their Constitution is fine. Sick politics is a sure sign of constitutional failure. This is Sotirios Barber's message in Constitutional Failure. Public attitudes fostered by a consumer culture, constitution worship, the lack of a trusted...
Presidential Leadership in Political Time
Reprise and Reappraisal?Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A bestselling classic with a new chapter on President Barack Obama
Renowned scholar Stephen Skowronek's insights have fundamentally altered our understanding of the American presidency. His "political time" thesis has been particularly influential, revealing how presidents reckon...
Where There's Smoke
The Environmental Science, Public Policy, and Politics of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles....
Rutgers v. Waddington
Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of violent revolutions, the matter made its way into the legal arena. Rutgers v. Waddington was such a case. Through this little-known but remarkable...
ARVN
Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
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Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forces in modern history. Cobbled together by U.S. advisers from the remnants of the French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, it was effectively pushed...
Modernity and the Great Depression
The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Order, planning, and reason—in the depths of the Great Depression, with the nation teetering on the brink of collapse, this was what was needed. And this, Kenneth J. Bindas suggests, was what the ideas and ideals of modernity offered—a way to make sense of the chaos all around. In Modernity and...
The People's Martyr
Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr's failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately...