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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.

Reveals a writer who is decidedly less static than the iconic portrait that dominates popular culture and offers a corrective to the dominant perspective of Mark Twain as the nostalgic voice of America's rural past, presenting Twain as a citizen of modernity and a visionary of a global and cosmopolitan future.

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.

Presents the call to the writing life as one of joy and opportunity rather than angst and longing. This book invites us along on a tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, '60s pop culture, and writing workshops.

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.

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.

Offers essays, beginning with the outbreak of the Great War in Europe in 1914 and covering events of subsequent years, that examine historical issues in a fresh way. This book takes in a panoramic view of German militarism, the American role in the war, and British and American politics and politicos.

As much a doubter as a believer, Emily Dickinson often expressed views about God in general - and God with respect to suffering in particular. This book examines Dickinson's perspectives on the role played by a supposedly omnipotent and all-loving God in a world marked by violence and pain.

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.

Describes the reality of journalism behind the Iron Curtain - how Western reporters banded together to thwart Soviet propagandists, how their ""official sources"" were almost always controlled by the KGB, and how those sources would sometimes try to turn newsmen into collaborators.

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.

More than 3 out of 5 deaths from heart attack occur simply because people don't immediately go to the hospital, waiting instead to see if symptoms persist. This book explains that majority of heart attacks don't just happen spontaneously but are preceded by early warning signs - including little-known signs that go unrecognized by most people.

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.

Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.

Ben is struggling with learning challenges that have left him resentful and underachieving. His father Todd, wants to help his son gain self-confidence but is searching for his own identity. In the great outdoors parents and youngsters can connect in unimaginable ways, this work shares such a connection in an adventure story set on Buffalo river.

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.

Looks at the multifaceted world of book reviewing, contrasting traditional methods of reviewing with alternative book coverage, from Amazon.com to Oprah. This title also explores the divide between service journalism practiced by reviewers versus the alleged high art served up by literary critics.

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.

Walter Schneider became interested in photography while still a teenager but kept up his avocation as a law student and attorney. This book contains 168 of the best images, capturing scenes in the artist's hometown of Kankakee, Illinois, and his schooling at the University of Wisconsin and also ranging widely across America and the world.

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.

When Martin Hogan began training on a vacant lot to be a soldier, he had no idea that he was about to become part of one of the most famed fighting units of World War I. This book records his recollections of the 165th Infantry in World War I, a regiment in the famed Rainbow Division.