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Jessie Benton Fremont who was raised more like a son by her father Thomas Hart Benton (one of Missouri's first two senators), married army explorer John Charles Fremont against her parents' wishes. Although she lived her ambitions largely through her husband's career, she made a name for herself as a writer and a firm opponent of slavery.

Examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S Truman. The author also incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as key figures in each president's administration. The personal styles of each president has also been emphasized.

Captures a bygone era - the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s - through the reminiscences of award-winning ""New York Times"" reporter Gerald Eskenazi. This first-person recollection shows radio's broad impact on his generation and explains how and why it became such a major factor in shaping America and Americans.

Explores Franklin's partnerships and business relationships with printers and their impact on the early American press. Besides analyzing the structure of the network, the author addresses two equally important questions: How did Franklin establish this informal group? And what were his motivations for doing so?

Dealing with formalism as a philosophy in Yeats's works and how that in turn affects both his art and his politics, this book mediates between older, more traditional readings of Yeats's work and theoretical, often antagonistic readings in an effort to restore a balanced perspective. The author centers most of his discussion on the poetry itself.

Addresses a question of perennial interest and significance: what is the nature and value of politics? The book examines six key figures from among the states' rights constitutionalists (Alexander H Stephens, John C Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh) and the moral abolitionists (Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass).

Presents for the first time the collected correspondence between literary giant Ernest Hemingway and his young friend and informal agent A E Hotchner. Spanning the final quarter of Hemingway's life from 1948 to 1961, the book includes more than 160 letters, cables, and cards between these two close friends.

Provides more than sixty-five exquisite black-and-white photographs spanning Oliver Schuchard's thirty-eight years of photography. In addition, Schuchard explains the aesthetic rationale and techniques he used in order to produce these photographs, emphasizing the profound differences between, yet necessary interdependence of, craft and content.

Lucy Ferriss's memoirs blends regional history, national history, and her personal history to create a narrative that follows two time lines. One is the story of her attending an exclusive ball. The other takes place thirty years later as she returns to St Louis to track down some of ACTION's - a militant civil rights group - principal activists.

Examining the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, the author addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as ""individual knowledge projects"" - the writers' attempts to transform raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with others.

Jan S. Prybyla traces the implementation of an idea based on American values - to give people realizable hope, an attainable dream, in a peaceful, secure, and materially comfortable world, a Pax Americana. Prybyla recommends a reevaluation of American relations with those to whom friendship is only utilitarian, in light of terrorism worldwide.

Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering tell the stories of women from all across Europe who left the Old World for Missouri. Drawing heavily on the women's own stories, the book illustrates common elements of their lives without minimizing the diversity and complexity of each individual's experience.

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.

The 43th volume of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin consists of Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections, reprinted from the 1989 edition with additional annotations; a glossary of terms used in Voegelin's writings, illustrated with examples from throughout the Collected Works; a volume index; and a cumulative index.

When the Missouri state legislature overrode Governor Bob Holden's veto in 2003 to make conceal-and-carry the law of the land, the Show-Me State became one of the last in the country to adopt this type of law. William Horner chronicles this fight in chronological order.

Carol Thomas offers two case studies: Jason and the voyage of the Argo, from the ""Age of Heroes,"" and Hesiod, probably the first literate European, who lived ca. 700 BCE. With these examples, Thomas shows that a combination of scientific tools and historically oriented scholarship can offer a larger context in which individual subjects lived.

Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), one of America's greatest 19th-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham's artistic achievements, he also portrays another and very important part of the artist's career - his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri.

This book completes and complements the first volume of the letters and life of James Dickey. Picking up where the previous volume left off, it chronicles Dickey's career from the success of his novel "Deliverance" in 1970 until his death in 1997.

Spanning some 54 years, this is a look at the journals that William Barclay Napton (1808-1883), an editor, Missouri lawyer, and state Supreme Court judge, kept from his time as a student at Princeton to his death in Missouri.

These essays endeavor to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other 20th-century thinkers and explore issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs?

This collection of essays devoted to the centrality of place in the short stories and novels of some of the twentieth century's most famous American writers was conceived as a way to honor the life and career of Walter Sullivan, an author for whom place was central both in his fiction and in his critical writing.

Focusing on social, economic, and political life, volume IV of History of Missouri provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the state.

Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s.

Charlie Farmer, provides the reader with some tips for making the most of the four major outdoor nature activities that are available in Missouri. He also shares many of the fascinating adventures he has had during a lifetime of participating in his favorite pastimes.

Confronts what is considered the biggest issue of Truman historiography: the historical significance of Harry S. Truman's presidency. Exploring the subject from the point of view of Truman's Farewell Address of January 15, 1953, the book describes the preparation of the address itself and the negative view of his presidency that prevailed.

The United States in 1800 by Henry Adams is a compilation of the first six chapters of his magnum opus, ""History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison"". In this volume, Adams explains how personalities and events from this period shaped the main lines of American national development.

Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains a major figures in American political thought, many of his critics consider him merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. H. Lee Cheek, Jr., presents Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a ""proper mode of popular rule.

This second volume of Eric Voegelin's miscellaneous papers contains unpublished writings from the time of his forced emigration from Austria in 1938 until his death in 1985. The volume's focus is on dialogue and discussion, presenting Voegelin in the role of lecturer, discussant, and respondent.