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As reports of genocide, terrorism, and political violence fill today's newscasts, more attention has been given to issues of human rights - but all too often the sound bytes seem overly simplistic. This book shows that the identification of rights with contemporary liberal democracy is inaccurate.

Perhaps the best known of all American five-star generals, Douglas MacArthur established his military reputation at the hill of Chatillon during the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne in World War I. This book reconstructs the movements of troops and the decisions of officers to show in detail how MacArthur's subordinates were the true heroes.

Describes how the news media in the United States were fundamentally changed by the creation of academic departments and schools of journalism, by the founding of the National Press Club, and by developments that included early newsreels, the introduction of halftones to print, and even changes in newspaper design.

With his wild countenance, emotional rhetoric, and outrageous statements, James Henry Lane was a volatile figure in a hotbed of controversy. Taking readers from the halls of Congress to the bloody plains of Kansas and Missouri, this book challenges prevailing views of Lane as a self-serving demagogue.

Many Americans know the story of the United States Colored Troops, who broke racial barriers in Civil War combat, and of the 'buffalo soldiers', who served in the West after that conflict, but African Americans also served in segregated militia units in twenty-three states. This book tells the story of that experience in Kansas.

Acknowledged as a significant figure in the history of women on the early western frontier, Mary Easton Sibley was involved in most of the important events in nineteenth-century Missouri, and pursued and practiced educational innovations. This biography sheds light on this important pioneer.

Chronicles a city's struggle to preserve its history and the built environment. This book places the role of preservation in Independence (Missouri) not only within the larger context of preservation in the US but also within the context of American environmental history.

Lester A Walton was African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist. This book, while exploring the contours of his life, seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed.

Words cannot adequately convey the human dimension of the devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. This work uses photographs to tell the story of the storm. It also includes black-and-white images and narratives that show individuals who are reorganizing their lives, and trying to maintain their individuality.

Collects essays by A J Wilder that originally appeared in ""Missouri Ruralist"" between 1911 and 1924. This book lends her advice to women of her generation on such issues as how to be an equal partner with their husbands, how to support the new freedoms they'd won with the right to vote, and how to maintain family values in their changing world.

A collection of essays that aim to distill the essence of the values that define independent journalism. This work reflects on journalism as a public trust, requiring the publication of stories that give readers a better understanding of society and equip them to change it for the better.

Beginning with America's first newspaper, investigative reporting has provided journalism with its most significant achievements and challenging controversies. This book provides readers with a comprehensive history of investigative journalism, including a thorough account of the founding and achievements of Investigative Reporters and Editors.

A rich body of mythology and literature has grown around the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara or ""marriage of sovereignty"". This book explores Seamus Heaney's use of the family of sovereignty motifs and redresses the imbalance of criticism that has overemphasized the theme of sacrifice to the detriment of more optimistic symbols.

This text is a comprehensive assessment of baseball legend Stan Musial's life and career. The book places the star within his time - the Great Depression and wartime and postwar America - and the issues then prevalent in professional baseball, particularly race and economic issues.

A ""shooter"" for the Associated Press for thirty-three years, Burroughs was assigned to the Washington bureau. This book is both an eyewitness account of history and a professional memoir - a book that brings special moments into the viewfinder as Burroughs turned his trained photographer's eye to reflect his highly cultivated sense of news.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson was one of the most intriguing but least-known Missouri participants in the Civil War. He and his troops traveled fast and light to harass Union forces, materializing out of the countryside to surprise the enemy and evading the traps set for them by Northern commanders. This book now tells his story.

Offers an insider's look at the justice system, taking readers from the scene of the crime to the courtroom, exploring the worlds of judges, attorneys, police officers, and criminals. In cases ranging from indecent exposure to conspiracy to commit murder, this work considers the fine line between pornography and obscenity.

Offers readers a look at the emergence of America's naval might and establishes Power at Sea as essential in tracing the emergence of US dominance and understanding the continuing importance of ships and sailors in international power plays. This title describes the virtual disappearance after 1945 of all but one great navy.

For twenty years, readers of the ""Christian Science Monitor"" have enjoyed the musings of Robert Klose who has brought his talent to bear on a wide range of human-interest subjects. This work captures his prose and voice in essays whose subjects range from the joys of small-town hardware stores to the challenges of learning a foreign language.

Traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. This work tells of community gatherings in country schools and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games.

Talks about the lives and times of Missouri's celebrated generals and their roles in American history, focusing in particular on their battlefield exploits. This book is useful for those interested in Missouri history, as well as those interested in military leadership.

Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?"" The author seeks the answer to this question by delving into the particulars of his own experience.

Takes readers into the courtroom to hear a streetwise convict verbally sparring with the DA, then brings us into the confines of the jury room to have us witness nervous chatter over the meaning of evidence. As an antidote, the author suggests that literary and historical texts can help us develop the capacity for prudential judgment.

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders played critical roles when military force was used and were often instrumental in promoting transatlantic consensus. He offers readers an understanding of the alliance's post-Cold War transformation.

In the marriage of fact and fiction, of comedy and pathos, and the music of many voices, the stories of this work reconfirm the judgment of novelist and story writer Richard Bausch. It is concerned with the old verities of love and death and filled with the joys and woes of characters who come to life and command our attention.

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.

A reflection on man's relationship to nature and work, American history and the movement into the West, the desire to impose order and the contrary impulse for unmediated experience, the idealistic legacy of the sixties, the influence of the Mormon Church, and the antagonistic relationship of American capitalism to sound ecological management.

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.