Books published by University of Missouri Press

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.

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.

During his life, George S. Patton Jr starred as an Olympic athlete, chased down Mexican bandits, and led tanks into battle in World War I. But he is best remembered for his exploits in World War II. Patton's War follows the general from the beaches of Morocco to the fields of France, right before the birth of Third Army on the continent.

Offers insights into the varied experiences of black militia units in the post-Civil War period. The book includes eleven articles that focus either on 'Black Participation in the Militia' or 'Black Volunteer Units in the War with Spain'. The articles provide an overview of the history of early black citizen-soldiers.

80 years ago, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university's decision. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers, including Charles Houston, known as "the man who killed Jim Crow".

The correspondence of these two prominent women reveals their concerns with love, career, and marriage. Their letters tell the story of the first generation of women to come of age during the twentieth century, as they tried to cope with problems that still face women today.

Tells the extraordinary tale of two sisters, Mary Alice Heinbach and Euphemia B. Koller, and their seventeen-year property dispute against America's leading cement corporation - the Atlas Portland Cement Company.

Closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. This narrative centres on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division.

Examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.

This text is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as ""the decisive problem of philosophy"": the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding.

In this second, expanded edition of Resolving Racial Conflict, Grande Lum continues Bertram Levine's excellent scholarship, adding what has transpired over the last twenty-five years for the Community Relations Service (CRS) of the US Department of Justice.

Tells the story of how film-makers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry.

As word of the discovery of gold in northern California spreads, an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. Alongside some two hundred emigres from northern Europe is a contingent of wealthy British people who call themselves not immigrants, but colonists.

Despite the many books and articles written about him, none considers in depth how General George S. Patton Jr's love of history shaped the course of his life. In this thematic biography, Furman Daniel traces Patton's obsession with history and argues that it informed and contributed to many of his successes, both on and off the battlefield.

Offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. In doing so, Amy Fluker provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri.

Written by expert scientists, this collection of essays addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on earth possible.

In this blunt critique of the leadership of the US Army, Colonel Pat Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US Army refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through low-intensity conflicts in the 1980s and '90s, and leaving it unprepared for Afghanistan and Iraq.