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The liberal arts university has been in decline since well before the virtualization of campus life, increasingly inviting public skepticism about its viability as an institution of personal, civ­ic, and professional growth. New technologies that might have brought people together have instead frustrated the university's capacity to foster thoughtful citizenship among tomorrow's lead­ers and exacerbated socioeconomic inequalities that are poison­ing America's civic culture. With Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society, a collec­tion of 19 original essays, editors Justin Dyer and Constantine Vassiliou present the work of a diverse group of scholars to assess the value of a liberal arts education in the face of market, technological, cultural, and political forces shaping higher learning today.

By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler's regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life's work: to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century. One of the most original political philosophers of the period, Voegelin has largely avoided ideological labels or categorizations of his work. Because of this, however, and because no one work or volume of his can do justice to his overall project, his work has been seen as difficult to approach. Drawing from the University of Missouri Press's thirty-four-volume edition of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (1990-2009), Charles Embry and Glenn Hughes have assembled a selection of representative works of Voegelin, satisfying a longstanding need for a single volume that can serve as a general introduction to Voegelin's philosophy. The collection includes writings that demonstrate the range and creativity of Voegelin's thought as it developed from 1956 until his death in 1985 in his search for the history of order in human society. The Reader begins with excerpts from Autobiographical Reflections (1973), which include an orienting mixture of biographical information, philosophical motivations, and the scope of Voegelin's project. It reflects key periods of Voegelin's philosophical development, pivoting on his flight from the Gestapo. The next section focuses on Voegelin's understanding of the contemporary need to re-ground political science in a non-positivistic, post-Weberian outlook and method. It begins with Voegelin's historical survey of science and scientism, followed by his explanation of what political science now requires in his introduction to The New Science of Politics. Also included are two essays that exemplify the practice of this "new science." Voegelin started his academic career as a political scientist, and these early essays indicate his wide philosophical vision. Voegelin recognized that a fully responsible "new science of politics" would require the development of a philosophy of history. This led to the writing of his magnum opus, the five-volume Order and History (1956-1985). This section of the Reader includes his introductions to volumes 1, 2 and 4 and his most essential accounts of the theoretical requirements and historical scope of a philosophy of history adequate to present-day scholarship and historical discoveries. In the course of his career, Voegelin came to understand that political science, political philosophy, and philosophy of history must have as their theoretical nucleus a sound philosophical anthropology based on an accurate philosophy of human consciousness. The next set of writings consists of one late lecture and four late essays that exemplify how Voegelin recovers the wisdom of classical philosophy and the Western religious tradition while criticizing modern misrepresentations of consciousness. The result is Voegelin's contemporary accounts of the nature of reason, the challenge of truly rational discussion, and the search for divine origins and the life of the human spirit. During his philosophical journey, Voegelin addressed the historical situatedness of human existence, explicating the historicity of human consciousness in a manner that gave full due to the challenges of acknowledging both human immersion in the story of history and the ability of consciousness to arrive at philosophically valid truths about existence that are transhistorical. The essays in this final section present the culmination of his philosophical meditation on history, consciousness, and reality.

"Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation"--

""Keep It Old-Time" provides a fascinating social and cultural history of the traditions and changes in Missouri fiddle music from the Folk Music Revival of the 1960s to the present time"--

""No Sacrifice Too Great: the 1st Infantry Division in World War II" is the story of how a great Division learned to fight from the summer of 1940 through VE day. Formed on a small core of combat veterans from the Great War, the 1st Infantry Division grew from an understrength, peacetime formation to a highly trained and respected fighting organization. More importantly it sustained tactical excellence in the face of dynamic conditions as it crossed North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium, Germany and into Czechoslovakia"--

A personal account of her own experiences and the women she met on the way, this text presents stories of those who were active members of the Italian resistance during World War II.

More than a half-century after the death of Kansas City's notorious political boss, Thomas J. Pendergast, the Pendergast name still evokes great interest and even controversy. Now, in this first full-scale biography of Pendergast, Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston provide a clear look at the life of Thomas J. Pendergast.

For more than 130 years, the Missouri Secretary of State's Office has published what is commonly known as the "Blue Book". Missouri's history and the work of its public servants have been collected in this book every other year since 1878. Each edition of the "Blue Book" is a snapshot of Missouri history.

Many studies have considered the Bible's relationship to politics, but almost all have ignored the heart of its narrative and theology: the covenant. In this book, Glenn Moots explores the political meaning of covenants past and present by focusing on the theory and application of covenantal politics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

The Veiled Prophet organisation has been an institution in St Louis for more than a century. Founded in 1878, it was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Thomas Spencer explores the social and cultural functions of the organisation's annual celebration and traces the shifts that occurred in its importance.

The format of the book is an homage to the in-depth conversational interviews Hugh Hefner pioneered as the editor and publisher of Playboy magazine. Stuart Brotman conducted in-person interviews with eight persons who in their lifetimes have come to represent a 'greatest generation' of free speech and free press scholars and advocates.

In 1973, Betsy Ann Plank became the first woman to chair the Public Relations Society of America in its twenty-five-year history. This book explores how she managed to navigate the very real barriers of gender-based discrimination that existed in PR at least through the 1970s, and how she ultimately became devoted to PR education.

Autonomy is foundational to journalism. But where does the idea of autonomy come from, and what is it that journalism should be autonomous from? This book presents the genealogy of the idea of journalistic autonomy from the seventeenth century to our contemporary digital age.

A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theatre until the final surrender of the war. This full-length study of the officer documents how, despite his meteoric military career, his accomplishments were underreported and often misrepresented in the historical record.

Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for 2003-2004. This book explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales. It discusses her sense of self, of Judaism, and of the poetic tradition.

In this first full-length study of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Christopher Phillips offers much more than a traditional biography. His extensive analysis of Jackson's rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri's antebellum politics and of Jackson's complex actions in pursuit of his state's secession offers a broader story of regional identity.

Until recently, many of Missouri's legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history.

The last installment of Scharnhorst's three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Clemens between his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 and his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works.

Conceived of as a way to commemorate Missouri's bicentennial of statehood, this unique work presents the perspective of Gary Kremer, one of the Show-Me State's foremost historians, on how history has played out in the two centuries since Missouri's admittance to the Union.

Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri 'Question', in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.