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Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally 'half American'? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering his personal reflections on great leaders of our time.

In 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular Blue Highways, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon's route, culminating in Blue Highways Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Highways. A foreword by Heat-Moon notes, "The photographs, often with amazing accuracy, capture my verbal images and the spirit of the book. Taking the journey again through these pictures, I have been intrigued and even somewhat reassured that America is changing not quite so fast as we often believe. The photographs, happily, reveal a recognizable continuity - but for how much longer who can say - and I'm glad the Ailors have recorded so many places and people from Blue Highways while they are yet with us." Through illustrative photography and text, Ailor and his son capture once more the local color and beauty of the back roads, cafes, taverns, and people of Heat-Moon's original trek. Almost every photograph in Blue Highways Revisited is referenced to a page in the original work. With side-by-side photographic comparisons of eleven of Heat-Moon's characters, this new volume reflects upon and develops the memoir of Heat-Moon's cross-country study of American culture and spirit. Photographs of Heat-Moon's logbook entries, original manuscript pages, Olympia typewriter, Ford van, and other artifacts also give readers insight into Heat-Moon's approach to his trip. Discussions with Heat-Moon about these archival images provide the reader insight into the travels and the writing of Blue Highways that only the perspective of the author could provide. Blue Highways Revisited reaffirms that the "blue highway" serves as a romantic symbol of the free and restless American spirit, as the Ailors lose themselves to the open road as Heat-Moon did thirty years previously. This book reminds readers of the insatiable attraction of the "blue highway"--"But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk--times neither day or night--the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself" (Introduction to Blue Highways).

Presents the first comprehensive look at relations between Spain and the two antagonists of the American Civil War. Using Spanish, US and Confederate sources, Bowen provides multiple perspectives of critical events during the Civil War, including Confederate attempts to bring Spain and other European nations into the war; reactions to those attempts; and Spain's revived imperial fortunes.

When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the US, they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of "American" names. In this lively, entertaining, and often hilarious memoir, he relates the early life of a first-generation Thai-American and his constant, often bumbling attempts to reconcile cultural and familial expectations with the trials of growing up in 1980s America.

To defend the essay - that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses - Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history.

Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards is a vital figure in American military history, yet his contribution to the US efforts in World War I has often been ignored or presented in unflattering terms. But Clarence Edwards, though often a divisive figure, was a revered and admired officer. Michael E. Shay presents a complete portrait of this notable American and his many merits.

Challengez conventional perceptions of the antebellum US South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners.

This is concerned with how art, and especially poetry, functions as a vehicle of spiritual expression in today's modern cultures. It considers the meeting points of art, poetry, religion, and philosophy, in part through examining the treatments of consciousness, transcendence, and art in the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan.

The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River. The state and Missouri River are namesakes of these historic Indians, but little of the tribe's history is known today. Michael Dickey tells the story of these indigenous Americans in The People of the River's Mouth.

The first modern book devoted exclusively to the history of colonial St. Louis, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil illuminates how its people loved, fought, worshipped, and traded. Covering the years from the settlement's 1764 founding to its 1804 absorption into the young United States, this study reflects on the experiences of the village's many inhabitants.

Presents a case study in the foundations of state governments. The book provides a sweeping look at the constitutional foundations of the processes of Missouri government. Authors Richard Fulton and Jerry Brekke place Missouri within the context of America's larger federal system while using the state's constitution as a touchstone for the discussion of each element of state government.

Presents an on-the-ground view of local institution building and community organizing campaigns initiated by African American social welfare reformers. The author places African American social welfare reform efforts within the vanguard of interwar community and neighbourhood organisation, reaching beyond the "racial uplift" and "behavior" models of preceding studies.

In the 1800s, American women were largely restricted to the private sphere. Even as the women's movement came along midcentury, it focused on gaining legal and political rights rather than career opportunities. So it is remarkable that three sisters born in the 1850s, the Owen daughters of Missouri, all achieved success in their careers. This volume tells the story of these exceptional sisters.

Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Ayn Rand, and John Stuart Mill to the Dalai Lama.

Before Mark Twain became a national celebrity with his ""The Innocents Abroad"", he was just another struggling writer perfecting his craft. Plumbing Mark Twain's cultural significance, this title compares the performative aspects of Samuel Clemens' early work to the role of ritual clowns in traditional societies.

Major John Henshaw, a dutiful regimental officer in the American invasion of Mexico, was one of only a handful of eyewitnesses to describe the two major theaters of that war from start to finish. This book presents Henshaw's recollections, covering various actions from the first skirmish in southern Texas to the collapse of Mexico City.

As debates rage over the place of faith in our national life, Tocqueville's nineteenth-century crediting of religion for shaping America is largely overlooked today. Now, in Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, Ellis Sandoz reveals the major role that Protestant Christianity played in the formation and early period of the American republic. Sandoz traces the rise of republican government from key sources in Protestant civilization, paying particular attention to the influence of the Bible on the Founders and the blossoming of the American mind in the eighteenth century. Sandoz analyzes the religious debt of the emergent American community and its elevation of the individual person as unique in the eyes of the Creator. He shows that the true distinction of American republicanism lies in its grounding of human dignity in spiritual individualism and an understanding of man's capacity for self-government under providential guidance. Along the way, he addresses such topics as the neglected question of the education of the Founders for their unique endeavor, common law constitutionalism, the place of Latin and Greek classics in the Founders' thought, and the texture of religious experience from the Great Awakening to the Declaration of IndependenceTo establish a unifying theoretical perspective for his study, Sandoz considers the philosophical underpinnings of religion and the contribution that Eric Voegelin made to our understanding of religious experience. He contributes fresh studies of the character of Voegelin's thought: its relationship to Christianity; his debate with Leo Strauss over reason, revelation, and the meaning of philosophy; and the theory of Gnosticism as basic to radical modernity. He also provides a powerful account of the spirit of Voegelin's later writings, contrasting the political scientist with the meditative spiritualist and offering new insight into volume 5 of Order and History. Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America concludes with timely reflections on the epoch now unfolding in the shadow of Islamic jihadism. Bringing a wide range of materials into a single volume, it confronts current academic concerns with religion while offering new insight into the construction of the American polity--and the heart of Americanism as we know it today.

Features letters written by Eric Voegelin which covers the period from 1950 through 1984. These letters provide evidence of the intellectual vigor that characterized his work throughout his life and continued virtually undiminished until the last weeks before his death. This biography focuses on one of the profound thinkers of the 20th century.

Sagebrush School is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century, its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. This book contains 67 selections representing outstanding work by accomplished Sagebrushers Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett.

Famous for its insight into a young, inexperienced soldier's psychology, ""The Red Badge of Courage"" has long been assumed to have been based on little more than magazine articles and veterans' reminiscences. In this book, the author draws on more than three decades of teaching the novel to plumb the historical realities that actually shaped it.

Sagebrush School is a term applied to a group of writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century, its most illustrious representative being Mark Twain. This book contains 67 selections representing outstanding work by accomplished Sagebrushers Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett.

Focusing on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, the author argues that primitive literary characters are more than just memorable. She explores how the working class and racial and ethnic minorities came to occupy the position of ""primitives"".

Provides an analysis of works on the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Thirteen young women, who, after the Spanish Civil War ended with the Nationalists' victory, were executed. One of the fearless women had said, ""Do not allow my name to vanish in history."" This is the author's attempt to respond to her last request.