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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith is the winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award.

It is also the winner of the Tennessee History Book Award.

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Louis Fisher is the winner of the Career Service Award for the APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Section.


American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores is the winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize.

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The Mediterranean Air War: Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II by Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. is the winner of the U.S. Military History Group Jakobczak Memorial Book Award.


The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes by George Frazier is the winner of the Hamlin Garland Prize, from the Midwestern History Association.

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Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890–1990 by David Wallace Adams is the winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award for best book on the twentieth-century American West.

It is also the winner of the David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize.


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“No Place Like Home is invaluable for insisting we understand that the battle for LGBT rights is vibrantly enacted and fought at the state and local levels, as well as nationally. C. J. Janovy has written a compelling, meticulously researched, and sweeping tapestry of heroic moments— small and large—as women and men stand up to their municipalities, friends, colleagues, and neighbors to do the right thing.”

Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of tHe united stAtes

“A work of heartfelt experience, No Place Like Home tells the story of the fight for justice for LGBT people, and does so with passion, insight, and wisdom. Using the Sunflower State as the bellwether for the country’s long struggle for human rights, C. J. Janovy’s book shows us that the moral arc of the universe is long— and it bends toward Kansas.”

Jennifer finney Boylan, author of sHe’s not tHere: A Life in two Genders

No Place Like HomeLessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas

C. J. Janovy

Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes

about red states. In the American imagi-nation, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically naïve Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the country’s most hostile states.

The LGBT civil rights movement’s history in California and in big cities such as New York and Washington, DC, has been well documented. But what is it like for LGBT activists in a place such as Kansas, where they face much stiffer headwinds? How do they win hearts and minds in the shadow of the Westboro Baptist Church (“Christian” motto: “God Hates Fags”)? Traveling the state in search of answers—from city to suburb to farm—journalist C. J. Janovy encounters LGBT activists who have fought, in ways big and small, for the acceptance and respect of their neighbors, their communities, and their government. Her book tells the story of these twenty-first-century citizen activ-ists—the issues that unite them, the actions they take, and the personal and larger consequences of their efforts, however successful they might be.

With its close-up view of the lives and work behind LGBT activism in Kansas, No Place Like Home fills a prairie-sized gap in the narrative of civil rights in America. The book also looks forward, as an inspiring guide for progressives concerned about the future of any vilified minority in an increasingly polarized nation.

C. J. Janovy is an arts reporter and editor for KCUR (public radio, Kansas City, MO) and former editor of the Pitch.

US HISTORY | US POLITICS | LGBT STUDIES

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“McDade’s account of Robert Kindred’s book-pillaging spree in university libraries across the United States is a well-told narrative that reads like an Elmore Leonard novel. McDade’s dramatic tale of book theft, mutilation, and cultural destruction is firmly grounded in archival sources, field research, and interviews and will appeal to a wide range of readers.”

Mark rose, professor emeritus of english, university of California, santa BarBara

Torn from Their BindingsA Story of Art, Science, and the Pillaging of American University LibrariesTravis McDade

In 1980, an antique print dealer was going broke from competition and lack of supply. Then he discovered all

the high-quality antique prints he could ever want—for free—on the shelves of American university libraries.

Torn from Their Bindings tells the story of Robert Kindred’s brazen theft of irreplaceable antique illustrations and maps from academic libraries across the country—a crime spree that left the irredeemable wreck of countless rare books in its wake. Travis McDade’s account of Kindred’s pillaging and the paper trail that led to his capture unfolds with the drama of a true crime page- turner—whose pages are replete with the particulars of archival treasures, library science, print preservation, and the

history bound up in the cultural heritage plundered by Kindred. Along the way we observe the nature and methods of the book thief, defacer of priceless volumes and purveyor of purloined pages, and acquire a wealth of knowledge about the antique prints he favored.

Told by an author devoted to the preservation of books, the story is propelled by an informed curiosity and just outrage from its suspenseful opening to its ironic conclusion—the ultimate fate of Kindred’s spoils.

Travis McDade is curator of law rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law. A leading expert on crimes against rare books, maps, documents, and other printed cultural heritage resources, he is the author of three previous books on the subject: Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library; Thieves of Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It; and The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman.

TRUE CRIME | US HISTORY | LIBRARY STUDIES

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“Charles Delgadillo has produced a full-fledged political biography of William Allen White that showcases the political power and influence of a man who never sought public office but for five decades had the ear of some of the most influential leaders in American history, including Theodore Roo-sevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

nancy c. Unger, author of fiGHtinG BoB LA foLLette: tHe riGHteous reformer

“Charles Delgadillo’s Crusader for Democracy is the long-awaited biography of William Allen White, the famed editor of the Emporia Gazette. White was a political giant in his own right, and Delgadillo ably tells us why with clear prose, meticulous research, and absorbing analysis. Highly recommended!”

DoUglas Brinkley, professor of history at riCe university and author of Cronkite

Roosevelt bit me and I went mad,” William Allen White said of his first encounter with Teddy in 1897. He

grudgingly praised Franklin D. Roosevelt’s performance at the 1943 Casablanca Conference with, “We who hate your gaudy guts salute you.” Editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, the Sage of Emporia is known for his quips, quotations, and a sharply crafted view from Main Street expressed in his 1896 essay, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” But for all his carefully cultivated small-town sagacity, William Allen White (1868–1944) was a public figure and political operator on a grand scale. Writing the first biography in a half-century to look at this side of White’s character and career, Charles Delgadillo brings to life a leading light of a once-widespread liberal Republican movement that has largely become extinct.

White built his reputation as the voice of the midwestern middle class through his nationally syndicated articles and editorials. Crusader for Democracy takes us behind the veneer of the small-town newspaperman to show us the sophisti-cated, well-traveled man of the world who rubbed elbows with local, state, and national politicians, world-renowned journalists and authors, political activists of all kinds, and every president from William McKinley to FDR. Paradoxically, White, the master of insider politics, was also an insurgent who fought a fifty-year crusade for liberal reform, usually through and sometimes against the Republican Party. Delgadillo’s vivid portrait gives readers a behind-the-scenes view of the twentieth-century political

Crusader for DemocracyThe Political Life of William Allen White

Charles Delgadillo

and economic order in the making, with William Allen White firmly in the middle, deploying the soft power of friendship and influence to advance the cause of the common man and the promise of equal opportunity as the very foundation of American democracy.

Charles Delgadillo is a lecturer in history at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and Norco College, in California.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody

bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farming, culture, and cuisine is the story Matthew Roth tells in Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America.

The soybean’s journey from one continent into the heart of another was by no means assured or predictable. In Asia, the soybean had been bred and cultivated into a nutritious staple food over the course of centuries. Its adoption by Americans was long in coming—the outcome of migration and innovation,

Magic BeanThe Rise of Soy in AmericaMatthew Roth

changing tastes and habits, and the transformation of food, farming, breeding, marketing, and indeed the bean itself, during the twentieth century. All come in for scrutiny as Roth traces the ups and downs of the soybean’s journey. Along the way, he uncovers surprising develop-ments, including a series of catastrophic explosions at soy-processing plants in the 1930s, the widespread production of tofu in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, the decades-long project to improve the blandness of soybean oil, the creation of new southern soybean varieties named after Confederate generals, the role of the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture in popularizing soy foods, and the discovery of soy phytoestrogens in the late 1980s. We also encounter fascinating figures in their own right, such as Yamei Kin, the Chinese American who promoted tofu during World War I, and African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian, who played a critical role in the story of synthetic human hormones derived from soy sterols.

A thoroughly engaging work of narrative history, Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America is the first comprehensive account of the soybean in America over the entire course of the twentieth century.

Matthew Roth is an independent scholar who lives in Philadelphia and is a staff member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.MAY

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“Magic Bean is compelling, comprehensive, and timely. Matthew Roth has provided a well-examined study of soy’s place within a long century of changing agricul-ture, food, diet, and culture. In the process, he offers an original and admirably wide-ranging account of soy for our time.”

BenJaMin r. cohen, author of notes from tHe Ground: sCienCe, soiL, & soCiety in tHe AmeriCAn Countryside

“Magic Bean tells the stories of a diverse cast of women and men who promoted the soybean as devotedly as John Chapman did the apple, and explains how a food often billed as a meat substitute became a linchpin of animal agriculture.”

kenDra sMith-howarD, author of Pure And modern miLk: An environmentAL History sinCe 1900

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“Touching and moving, Elevations shows the author’s personal connection with the Arkansas and why the river matters to us as Americans.”

Patrick DoBson, author of CAnoeinG tHe GreAt PLAins: A missouri river summer and seLdom seen: A Journey into tHe GreAt PLAins

“Elevations is a Blue Highways kind of book about a swipe of America from Colorado to Oklahoma, down the fabled Arkansas River that in its lower length now flows salt and sand. A riverine biogra-phy, it hits all the notes—from past massacres like Ludlow to barely missed modern ones in Garden City, from declining groundwater to ascendant marijuana. The stories are perceptive picks, but best of all is the author’s voice: unsurprised and unflinchingly honest.”

Dan flores, author of the award-winning Books Coyote AmeriCA and AmeriCAn serenGeti

The upper Arkansas River courses through the heart of America from its headwaters near the Continental

Divide above Leadville, Colorado, to Arkansas City, just above the Kansas-Oklahoma border. Max McCoy embarked on a trip of 742 miles in search of the river’s unique story. Part adventure and part reflection, steeped in the natural and cultural history of the Arkansas River valley, Elevations is McCoy’s account of that journey.

Going by kayak when he can—by Jeep, on foot, or by other means when he has to—McCoy takes us with him, navigating the Arkansas River as it reveals its nature and tests his own. Along the way, and when he isn’t battling the current for his overturned kayak; braving a frigid Christmas Eve along the river; or joining the search for a drowning victim, he steps out to explore the world beyond the river’s banks. Here for instance is Camp Amache, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Here is Ludlow, where thirteen women and children died in a standoff between striking coal miners and the militia in 1914. Farther along we find Sand Creek, site of a massacre by US soldiers in 1864, and, uncomfortably close, Garden City, where white supremacists were charged with planning a terror attack on Somali refugees in 2016.

Whether traveling back in time, pausing in the present, or looking to the future, Elevations captures the Arkansas River in its thrilling moments and placid stretches, in its natural splendor and degradation at human hands. The book shows us the river as a flowing repository

ElevationsA Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River

Max McCoy

of human history and, in the telling of this gifted writer, as a life-changing experience.

Max McCoy is professor of journalism and director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University. He has written a mystery series and works of historical fiction, three of which have won Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY


Operation Don’s Main AttackThe Soviet Southern Front’s Advance on Rostov, January–February 1943David M. Glantz

With the defeat and destruction of German Sixth Army at Stalingrad all but certain at the end of 1942,

the war on the Eastern Front took a definitive turn as the Germans struggled to erect a new defensive front to halt the Soviet juggernaut driving west. Operation Don’s Main Attack is the first detailed study of the dramatic clash of armies that followed, unfolding inexorably over the course of two months across an expanse of more than 1,600 kilometers.

Using recently released Russian archival material never before available to researchers, David M. Glantz provides a close-up account, from both sides, of the planning and conduct of Operation Don— the Soviet offensive by the Red Army’s Southern Front that aimed to capture Rostov in January–February 1943. His book includes a full array of plans, candid daily reports, situation maps, and strength and casualty reports prepared for the forces that participated in the offen-sive at every level. Drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive range of documents, the book delves into many hitherto forbidden topics, such as unit strengths and losses and the foibles and attitudes of command cadre. Glantz’s work also presents rare insights into the military strategy, combat tactics, and operational art of such figures as Generals Eremenko and Malinovsky and Field Marshal Erich von Manstein.

A uniquely informed study of a critical but virtually forgotten Soviet military operation, Operation Don’s Main Attack offers a fresh perspective on the nature of the twentieth century’s most terrible of wars.

David M. Glantz, an officer in the US Army from 1963 to 1993, is editor in chief of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. He is the author of numerous books, many from Kansas, including his celebrated Stalingrad Trilogy and, most recently, with Mary Elizabeth Glantz, Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army’s Forgotten Campaign of October 1943–April 1944.

Praise for the work of David Glantz:

“A superb historian and a brilliant detective.”

New York review of Books

“Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the Soviet– German War.”

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“Indisputably the West’s foremost expert on the subject.”

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“Glantz’s unrivaled command of Soviet sources has fundamentally revised our knowledge of the Eastern Front in World War II. By providing a comprehensive, accurate perspective on the war the Soviet Union fought, he has almost single-handedly corrected a one-sided German focus that distorted western understanding.”

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California at WarThe State and the People during World War I

Diane M. T. North

flourished because its industrialized agriculture helped feed British troops. The war provided a boost to the faltering Hollywood film industry and increased the military’s presence through the addition of army and navy training camps and air fields, ship construction, contracts to local businesses, coastal defenses, and university-sponsored scientific research. In these stories, North traces the roots of California’s global stature. The war united Californians in common humanitarian goals as they supported war-related charities, funded the nation’s war ma-chine, conserved food, and enforced rationing. Most citizens embraced wartime restrictions with patriotic zeal and did not foresee the retreat into suspicion, loyalty oaths, and unwarranted surveillance, all of which set the stage for the beginnings of the modern security state.

California at War raises important questions about what happens when a nation goes to war. This book illuminates the legacy of World War I for all Americans.

Diane M. T. North is an award-winning professor of history at the University of Maryland University College.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst

for the making of modern California. The war expanded the role of the government and enlarged the presence of private citizens’ associations. Never before had so many Californians taken such a dynamic part in community, state, national, and international affairs. These definitive events unfold in California at War as a complex, richly detailed historical narrative.

Historian Diane M. T. North not only writes about the transformative battlefield and nursing experiences of ordinary Californians but also documents how daily life changed for everyone on the home front—factory- and farmworkers, housewives and children, pacifists and politicians. Even before the United States entered the war, California’s economy

US HISTORY | WORLD WAR I

“Diane North’s sweeping overview of California in the Great War has something for every reader: armchair war buffs, economists, scientists, and lawyers anxious to understand how the war transformed California and, in turn, the nation; and descendants of California veterans, keen to experience the sights and sounds of total war as their loved ones did.”

Mary ann irwin, Coeditor of CALiforniA women And PoLitiCs: from tHe GoLd rusH to tHe GreAt dePression

“Diane North’s excellent book is the first serious social history of California during World War I. Comprehensive, carefully researched, and clearly written, the book is especially valuable for its detailed discussion of serious violations of constitutional rights and liberties made in the name of false patriotism.”

charles wollenBerg, author of BerkeLey: A City in History


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Imperial Germany and War, 1871–1918Daniel J. Hughes and Richard L. DiNardo

“Hughes and DiNardo provide a fine-grain portrait of the imperial German army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918. Written by two of the scholarly world’s leading authorities, it offers in-depth research into the German sources, judicious verdicts on men and events, and a breadth of vision greater than any previous work. It is an indispensable book that will dominate the narrative on the German army for decades.”

roBert M. citino, author of tHe weHrmACHt’s LAst stAnd: tHe GermAn CAmPAiGns of 1944–1945

“The Prussian/German army failed its ultimate test: preparing for and waging the Great War of 1914–1918. This major contribution is essential for all students of the subject.”

Dennis showalter, author of instrument of wAr: tHe GermAn Army 1914–18

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final

collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire—and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

Written by two of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871–1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning. Conse-quently, the authors focus on theory and

practice leading up to World War I and upon the variety of adaptations that became necessary as the war progressed—with unique insights into military theorists from Clausewitz to Moltke the Elder, Moltke the Younger, Schlichting, and Schlieffen. Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871–1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world. The book will prove indispensable to an understanding of the imperial German army.

Daniel J. Hughes is professor emeritus at the US Air Force Air War College. Richard L. DiNardo is professor of national security affairs at the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia. He is the author of many books, most recently Invasion: The Conquest of Serbia, 1915.

MILITARY HISTORY | GERMAN STUDIES | WORLD WAR I


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Dubbed the “Year of Intelligence,” 1975 was not a good year for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Caught spying on American citizens, the agency was under investigation and, indicted in shocking headlines, its future covert operations at risk. Like so many others caught up in public scandal, the CIA turned to public relations; this book tells what happened next.

In the mid-1970s, CIA officials developed a public relations strategy to fend off the agency’s critics. In Selling the CIA, David Shamus McCarthy describes a PR cam-paign that proceeded with remarkable continuity and effectiveness through the decades and regimes that followed. He deftly chronicles the agency’s efforts to project an image of openness and accountability, even as it did its best to put a positive spin on secrecy—“[m]ore openness with greater secrecy,” in the Orwellian words of one director of public affairs. A tale of machinations and manipulations worthy of Hollywood, McCarthy’s work exposes a culture of secrecy unwittingly sustained by the forces of popular culture, and a public relations offensive working on all fronts to perpetuate the CIA’s mystique as the heroic guardian of national security.

“Our failures are known, our successes are not” has been the guiding mantra of the CIA ever since. Selling the CIA spotlights how the agency’s success in outmaneuver-ing Congress and avoiding public scrutiny stands as a direct threat to American democracy.

Selling the CIAPublic Relations and the Culture of Secrecy

David Shamus McCarthy

“A riveting breakthrough account of the CIA’s secret media campaign to whitewash its blood-spattered public image . . . required reading for anyone worried about Big Brother’s hidden hand in our political discourse and popular culture.”—Frank Snepp, author of Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam and Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle over Free Speech

David Shamus McCarthy is assistant professor of history at the Richard Bland College of William and Mary.

“David McCarthy has written an original and valuable study of an important facet of recent intelligence history. His main argument—that the CIA’s deliberate use of public relations has para-doxically enabled it to preserve an institutional culture of secrecy—is trenchant and persuasive.”

hUgh wilforD, author of tHe miGHty wurLitzer: How tHe CiA PLAyed AmeriCA

“With both synoptic breadth and monographic depth, this ground-breaking study offers the first comprehensive history of CIA public affairs. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of secrecy, US foreign policy, and US government public relations.”

siMon willMetts, author of in seCreCy’s sHAdow: tHe oss And CiA in HoLLywood CinemA 1941–1979

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“This comprehensive and systematic empirical study of lawyers’ professional liability is the first book to explore an important but woefully neglected topic. Skillfully mining every data source they could find, Kritzer and Vidmar provide a valuable resource for lawyers, social scientists, and policymakers. Especially noteworthy is the book’s comparative analysis of legal malpractice and medical malpractice as well as its argument for requiring lawyers to carry malpractice insurance.”

lynn Mather, Coauthor of divorCe LAwyers At work: vArieties of ProfessionALism in PrACtiCe

“A must-read for anyone interested in the real story of legal malpractice.”

leslie c. levin, Joel Barlow professor of law, university of ConneCtiCut sChool of law

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Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against both mega law firms and

solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct and for settlements that can reach $100 million or more. This industry, legal services, can generate nearly $300 billion a year in revenue and touches every facet of American society. Yet, scant if any scholarly attention has been paid to the questions and conse-quences of lawyers’ professional liability. This book is the first to fully explore the mistakes lawyers sometimes make, the nature of these mistakes, the harm they do, and the significant disparities in outcomes for corporate and individual victims of lawyers’ errors.

A systematic, empirical study of legal malpractice, When Lawyers Screw Up employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the frequency and nature of claims, the area of practice producing them, the amounts at stake, and the resolutions. The authors also use a range of data sources to study the frequency and outcomes of legal malprac-tice trials, whether bench or jury. Their comparison of legal malpractice cases involving the corporate and personal service sectors reveals the difficulties of confronting claims coming from the personal sector—difficulties that often deny victims redress, even when they have suffered significant harm.

When Lawyers Screw UpImproving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice VictimsHerbert M. Kritzer and Neil Vidmar

When Lawyers Screw Up draws on a series of interviews to describe the practices of lawyers with expertise in handling legal malpractice claims, even as it notes how few such experts are available to prosecute these claims. In light of their findings, the authors suggest a range of reforms that would help victims of legal malpractice, particularly individuals and small businesses, in pursuing their claims.

Herbert M. Kritzer is professor of law and Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School. Neil Vidmar is professor emeritus at Duke University School of Law.

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On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best. William Marbury, a last-minute judicial

appointee of outgoing Federalist president John Adams, demanded redress from the Supreme Court when his commission was not delivered. But Chief Justice John Marshall could clearly see the danger Marbury’s demand posed for a weak court filled with Federalist judges. Wary of the Court’s standing with the new Republican administration of Thomas Jefferson, Marshall hit upon a solution that was both principled and pragmatic. He determined that while Marbury was justified in his suit, the law on which his claim was based was in conflict with the Constitution. It was the first time that the Court struck down an act of Congress as unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review that designates the Court as chief interpreter of the Constitution.

Nelson relates the story behind Marbury and explains why it is a founda-tional case for understanding the Supreme Court. He reveals how Marshall deftly avoided a dangerous political confronta-tion between the executive and judicial branches by upholding the rule of law. Nelson also shows how Marshall managed to shore up the Court’s prestige and power rather than have it serve partisan political agendas.

Nelson expands upon his original historical analysis by providing a more complete and nuanced account of eighteenth-century constitutionalism and the early development of judicial review.

Marbury v. MadisonThe Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review

Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

William E. Nelson

The new material includes chapters on nullification of legislation in local courts, James Otis’s articulation of the doctrine of judicial review in the Writs of Assistance Case, the use of this doctrine in response to the Stamp Act and Townshend Act, and the expansion of judicial review in the state cases. This revised and expanded edition provides a fuller picture of colonial America and a richer under-standing of Marshall’s foundational decision.

William E. Nelson is the Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

“A provocative and compelling work of scholarship by the dean of colonial and framing–era legal historians.”

g. eDwarD white, david and mary harrison distinguished professor of law, university of virginia sChool of law

“Nelson’s reconstruction of the way Marshall sought to secure a line between law and politics is novel, complicated, and has broad implications for how we understand the role of courts and judges in the early republic.”

larry kraMer, author of tHe PeoPLe tHemseLves: PoPuLAr ConstitutionALism And JudiCiAL review

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“A capacious tour de force. In a sweeping historical account, Dahl illuminates the violent structure of settler colonialism in the United States. The book is an impressive contribution to the florescence of counter-narratives that are preparing new ground for an urgent and emergent political theory of decolonization.”

alexanDer keller hirsch, assoCiate professor of politiCal sCienCe, university of alaska

“Dahl offers a serious and innovative engagement with Indigenous political thinkers, including William Apess, Black Hawk, and Elias Boudinot, who laid bare the paradoxes of this ‘democracy of dispossession.’ As such, Empire of the People functions as both contribu-tion to and indictment of American political thought.”

roBert nichols, mCknight land-grant professor in politiCal theory, university of minnesota

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American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the

birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this process—and in doing so, offers a fundamental reinterpretation of modern democratic thought in the Americas.

In Empire of the People, Adam Dahl examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appro-priation of Native land rather than the

Empire of the PeopleSettler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic ThoughtAdam Dahl

exploitation of Native labor. By placing the development of American political thought and culture in the context of nineteenth-century settler expansion, his work reveals how practices and ideologies of Indigenous dispossession have laid the cultural and social founda-tions of American democracy, and in doing so profoundly shaped key concepts in modern democratic theory such as consent, social equality, popular sover-eignty, and federalism.

To uphold its legitimacy, Dahl also argues, settler political thought must disavow the origins of democracy in colonial dispossession—and in turn erase the political and historical presence of Native peoples. Empire of the People traces this thread through the conceptual and theoretical architecture of American democratic politics—in the works of thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, John O’Sullivan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and William Apess. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy—and a different and more nuanced interpretation of the role of settler colonialism in the foundations of demo-cratic culture and society.

Adam Dahl is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as

Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women. Only by studying the gender roles of both can we hope to understand the rise and fall of the Osage empire. In Osage Women and Empire, Edwards brings gender construction to the fore in the context of Osage history through the nineteenth century.

Edwards’s examination of the Osage gender construction reveals that the rise of their empire did not result in an elevation of men’s status and a corre-sponding reduction in women’s. Consult-ing a wealth of sources, both Osage and otherwise—ethnographies, government documents, missionary records, traveler narratives—Edwards considers how the first century and a half of colonization affected Osage gender construction. She shows how women and men built the Osage empire together. Once confronted with US settler colonialism, Osage men and women increasingly focused on hunting and trade to protect their culture, and their traditional social structures—

Osage Women and EmpireGender and Power

Tai S. Edwards

including their system of gender com-plementarity—endured. Gender in fact functioned to maintain societal order and served as a central site for experiencing, adapting to, and resisting the monumen-tal change brought on by colonization.

Through the lens of gender, and by drawing on the insights of archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and oral history, Osage Women and Empire presents a new, more nuanced picture of the critical role of men and women in the period when the Osage rose to power in the western Mississippi Valley and when that power later declined on their Kansas reservation.

Tai S. Edwards is associate professor and director of the Kansas Studies Institute, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas.

“In her comprehensive analysis of gender roles throughout Osage history, Edwards demonstrates how attention to a Native American nation’s deeply held beliefs in complemen-tarity, autonomy, and balance allows us to understand Indigenous resilience to colonization.”

rose streMlaU, author of sustAininG tHe CHerokee fAmiLy: kinsHiP And tHe ALLotment of An indiGenous nAtion

“An important new work that refutes the long-standing false stereotype of the male domination and abuse of women in Great Plains warrior societies. Edwards restores Osage women to their rightful place in an egalitarian, nonhierarchical Indigenous system in which they were respected and essential participants.”

Donna l. akers, author of LivinG in tHe LAnd of deAtH: tHe CHoCtAw nAtion, 1830–1860

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“Anyone trying to understand the debate swirling around the constitutional right of secession in the months leading up to the Civil War will need to consult this volume. The selection of documents reflects Dwight Pitcaithley’s mastery of this material, as does his superb extended introduction. One word summarizes this book’s place in the massive literature on the Great Secession Winter of 1860–1861: indispensable.”

charles B. Dew, author of APostLes of disunion: soutHern seCession Commissioners And tHe CAuses of tHe CiviL wAr

“Brilliantly organized and contextualized by the author, these documents from America’s greatest crisis provide a definitive answer to the question of why the South seceded.”

tiMothy s. hUeBner, author of LiBerty And union: tHe CiviL wAr erA And AmeriCAn ConstitutionALism

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Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the

nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest. This documentary reader offers a firsthand look at the constitutional debates that consumed the country in those fraught five months. Day by day, week by week, these documents chart the political path, and the insurmountable differences, that led directly—but not inevitably—to the American Civil War.

At issue in these debates is the nature of the U.S. Constitution with regard to slavery. Editor Dwight Pitcaithley provides expert guidance through the speeches and discussions that took place over the

The U.S. Constitution and Secession A Documentary Anthology of Slavery and White SupremacyEdited by Dwight T. Pitcaithley

Secession Winter (1860–1861)—in Congress, eleven state conventions, legislatures in Tennessee and Kentucky, and the Washington Peace Conference of February 1861. The anthology brings to light dozens of solutions to the secession crisis proposed in the form of constitutional amendments—90 percent of them carefully designed to protect the institution of slavery in different ways throughout the country. And yet, the book suggests, secession solved neither of the South’s primary concerns: the expansion of slavery into the western territories and the return of fugitive slaves.

What emerges clearly from these documents, and from Pitcaithley’s incisive analysis, is the centrality of white suprem-acy and slavery—specifically the fear of abolition—to the South’s decision to secede. Also evident in the words of these politicians and statesmen is how thor-oughly passion and fear, rather than reason and reflection, drove the decision-making process.

Dwight T. Pitcaithley is a college professor of history at New Mexico State University. He is a former chief historian of the National Park Service.

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“Lana Wirt Myers has done a great service by making Reuben Smith’s diary widely available. From Bleeding Kansas and the Border War to his postwar political career as a state legislator and steward of the Kansas State Insane Asylum, Smith participated in many of the most fascinating and significant episodes of early Kansas history. Scholars, students, and lay readers alike will learn much from this skillfully edited volume.”

Michael e. wooDs, author of BLeedinG kAnsAs: sLAvery, seCtionALism, And CiviL wAr on tHe missouri-kAnsAs Border

“The diaries make for a vivid picture of nearly fifty years of life in Kansas during an especially dynamic period.”

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The Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas Settler and

Civil War SoldierEdited by Lana Wirt Myers

In 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually

making his way to Kansas Territory. There he found himself in the midst of a bloody prelude to the Civil War, as Free Staters and defenders of slavery battled to stake their claim. The young Englishman wrote down what he witnessed in a diary where he had already begun documenting his days in a clear and candid fashion. As beautifully written as they are keenly observant, these diaries afford an unusual view of America in its most tumultuous times, of Kansas in its critical historical moments, and of one man’s life in the middle of it all for fifty years.

From his moving account of traveling from England by ship to his reflections on settling in the newly opened Kansas Territory to his observations on war and politics, Smith provides a picture that is at once panoramic and highly personal. His diaries depict the escalation of the Civil War along the Kansas-Missouri border as well as the evolution of a volunteer soldier from an inexperienced private to a seasoned officer and government spy. They take us inside military camps and generals’ quarters, to the front lines of battle, and in pursuit of bushwhackers William Quantrill and Cole Younger. Later, the diaries show us Smith as a state representative and steward of the Kansas State Insane Asylum in its early years. In historic scenes and poignant personal stories, these diaries offer a unique perspective on life in the Midwest in the last half of the nineteenth century.

Editor Lana Wirt Myers’s commentary and extensive notes provide the context and information needed for a full under-standing of Reuben Smith’s remarkable stories.

Lana Wirt Myers is the author of Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward, named a 2011 Kansas Notable Book.

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“Americans of the nineteenth century were all too aware of death, even violent death at the hands of each other. But nothing prepared the nation for the scale of military killing generated by the Civil War. Nor will we, who have learned to sentimentalize that conflict so much, be prepared for the profile of slaughter laid out so skillfully by Jonathan Steplyk. This book presents the horrific edge of killing in the most sobering detail, from Elmer Ellsworth to Fort Pillow. It is a story of good deaths and bad, of blind bloodlust and instinctive repugnance, of bayonets and musket stocks, of closed eyes and open wounds—which is to say, an all-too-human story. I have never seen the Civil War’s ‘face of battle’ appear in uglier or clearer form.”

allen c. gUelzo, henry r. luCe iii professor of the Civil war era and direCtor of the Civil war era studies program, gettysBurg College

Fighting Means KillingCivil War Soldiers and the Nature of CombatJonathan M. Steplyk

War means fighting, and fighting means killing,” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan

Bedford Forrest famously declared.The Civil War was fundamentally a

matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first book-length study of Union and Confederate soldiers’ attitudes toward, and experiences of, killing in the Civil War.

Drawing upon letters, diaries, and postwar reminiscences, Steplyk examines what soldiers and veterans thought about killing before, during, and after the war. How did these soldiers view sharpshoot-ers? How about hand-to-hand combat? What language did they use to describe killing in combat? What cultural and societal factors influenced their attitudes?

And what was the impact of race in battle-field atrocities and bitter clashes between white Confederates and black Federals? These are the questions that Steplyk seeks to answer in Fighting Means Killing, a work that bridges the gap between military and social history—and that shifts the focus on the tragedy of the Civil War from fighting and dying for cause and country to fighting and killing.

“The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, but many soldiers had to overcome religious or moral scruples against killing. How did they do it? There is no simple or single answer to this question. Jonathan Steplyk’s answers, grounded in thorough research and incisive analysis, offer new perspectives on the motives of Civil War soldiers.” —James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

Jonathan M. Steplyk is adjunct instructor at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, and adjunct lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington. His work has been published in The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 and a forthcoming anthology on the siege of Vicksburg.

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“Judge’s fascinating method-ology reassesses the Solomons and New Guinea operations during the Pacific War. Applying his model to a rigorous analysis of the attritional struggle brings into sharp relief how and why the strategic initiative shifted from one adversary to the other. Military historians and strategic planners alike will benefit immensely from this highly original, imagi-native approach.”

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“The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War is a valuable addition to the literature on strategy.”

John t. kUehn, professor of military history, army Command and general staff College

Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts—in New

Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February 1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific, as the advan-tage definitively shifted from the Japanese to the Americans. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the strategic initiative—a concept that Sean Judge examines in this book, particularly in the context of the Pacific War.

The concept of strategic initiative, in this analysis, helps to explain why and how contending powers design campaigns and use military forces to alter the trajectory of war. Judge identifies five factors that come into play in capturing and maintaining the initiative: resources, intelligence, strategic acumen, combat

The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War

Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941–1943

Sean M. Judge

Edited by Jonathan M. House

Foreword by Peter R. Mansoor

effectiveness, and chance, all of which are affected by political will. His book uses the dual campaigns in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands as a case study in strategic initiative by reconstructing the organizations, decisions, and events that influenced the shift of initiative from one adversary to the other. Perhaps the most critical factor in this case is strategic acumen, without which the other advantages are easily squandered. Specifically, Judge details how General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, in designing and executing these campaigns, provided the strategic leadership essential to reversing the tide of war—whose outcome, Judge contends, was not as inevitable as conventional wisdom tells us.

The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War holds important lessons for students of military history and for future strategic leaders.

Sean M. Judge (1971–2012) was a career US Air Force officer from 1993–2012. His publications include Who Has the Puck? Strategic Initiative in Modern, Conventional War. Jonathan M. House, professor emeritus of military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College, is the author of Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century and coauthor of Stalingrad.

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“MacArthur’s Coalition provides a deeply researched, innovative, and authoritative study of how the United States and Australia fought together to achieve victory in the Second World War. The book holds important lessons for the conduct of present-day coalition operations—a key feature of modern warfare.”

DaviD horner, emeritus professor, strategiC and defenCe studies Centre, australian national university

“MacArthur’s Coalition is a superb work enormously extending our understanding of that controversial figure and those who served with him. It is deeply researched, vigorously narrated, and admirably evenhanded. It casts brilliant illumination over the full span of relationships.”

richarD B. frank, author of downfALL: tHe end of tHe imPeriAL JAPAnese emPire

MacArthur’s CoalitionUS and Australian Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942–1945Peter J. Dean

From 1942–1945 the Allies’ war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the

United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s Coalition puts the relationship between the United States and Australia at the center of the war against Japan.

Drawing on new primary source material, Peter J. Dean has written the first substantial book-length treatment of the coalition as a combined military force. This expansive and ambitious book provides a fresh perspective on the Pacific War by providing a close-up, in-depth account of operations in the Southwest Pacific from the Kokoda Trail campaign

to the reconquest of the Philippines and Borneo. Dean’s work takes the reader deep into the relevant military headquarters in the Southwest Pacific and reveals the discussions, debates, and arguments between key commanders and staff officers during the course of planning and waging a monumental conflict. Drawing upon archival records across three conti-nents, Dean brings the qualities of these senior officers to life by exploring the critical importance of personalities and leadership in overcoming cultural, doc-trinal, and organizational divides in the largely unequal alliance. Set against the practicalities of fighting a fanatical enemy in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the war, his book shows how, despite these divides and MacArthur’s difficult personality, the US-Australian coalition was able to forge a highly effective and ultimately triumphant fighting machine.

With its unprecedented view of the joint nature of operations in the South-west Pacific and its focus on frontline commanders and units in forging a successful fighting force, MacArthur’s Coalition illuminates a critical aspect of the Allied victory in World War II.

Peter J. Dean is senior fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra. His many books include The Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, and, most recently, as editor, Australia 1944–45: Victory in the Pacific.

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The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968

Mervyn Edwin Roberts III

T he Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968 for the first time fully explores the most sustained,

intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOPs) in American history. In PSYOPs, US military personnel use a variety of tactics—mostly audio and visual mes-sages—to influence individuals and groups to behave in ways that favor US objectives. Informed by the author’s firsthand experience of such operations elsewhere, this account of the battle for “hearts and minds” in Vietnam offers rare insight into the art and science of propa-ganda as a military tool in the twentieth century.

The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968 focuses on the creation, capabilities, and performance of the forces that conducted PSYOPs in Vietnam, including the Joint US Public Affairs Office and the 4th PSYOP Group. In his comprehensive account, Mervyn Edwin Roberts III covers psychological opera-tions across the entire theater, by all involved US agencies. His book reveals the complex interplay of these activities within the wider context of Vietnam and the Cold War propaganda battle being fought by the United States at the same time. Because PSYOPs never occurs in a vacuum, Roberts considers the shifting influence of alternative sources of infor-mation—especially from the governments of North and South Vietnam, but also from Australia, Korea, and the Philip-pines.

Robert’s book also addresses the development of PSYOPs doctrine and training in the period prior to the intro-duction of ground combat forces in 1965

and, finally, shows how the course of the war itself forced changes to this doctrine. The scope of the book allows for a unique measurement of the effectiveness of psychological operations over time.

Mervyn Edwin Roberts III is a professor of history at Central Texas College and a reserve instructor at the Joint Special Operations University at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

“Long overdue, this is meticulously documented and extremely well written; this book is an important addition to the historiography of the Vietnam War.”

JaMes h. willBanks, author of ABAndoninG vietnAm: How AmeriCA Left And soutH vietnAm Lost its wAr and A rAid too fAr: oPerAtion LAm son 719 And vietnAmizAtion in LAos

“Mervyn Roberts goes far toward filling a gap in our knowledge of the Southeast Asian conflict with his The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968. It is a nicely researched overview of what formed a significant part of the fight for hearts and minds that lay at the center of the war.”

John PraDos, author of vietnAm: tHe History of An unwinnABLe wAr, 1945–1975

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“This bold and exciting book gives us an entirely new view of the myth that Vietnam retained large numbers of American POWs after the war. By comparing this myth with a similar myth in Germany after World War II, Gallagher provides important insights into the significance of these postwar myths, which claim that many missing soldiers are still being held by an enemy nation in secret prison camps.”

h. BrUce franklin, author of vietnAm And otHer AmeriCAn fAntAsies

“This intriguing study examines Germany’s need to picture its missing prisoners as victims rather than war criminals. This is compared with the more contemporary public myth of unreturned American POWs following the Vietnam War, providing an important contribution to our under-standing of postwar trauma and public grief.”

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War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss.

Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat itself. Traumatic Defeat takes a close, comparative look at two cases of this kind of mythmaking—in West Germany in the wake of World War II and in the United States after the Vietnam War. The book examines a specific case of mythmaking that revolves around the ambiguity of missing men and the trauma resulting from their unresolved fates.

The “secret camp myth,” so called for the covert facilities where the missing supposedly survive, shared certain features in postwar Germany and America. Both nations suffered extreme trauma and struggled to find redemptive elements in their wartime experiences and both focused on POWs and MIAs to minimize their guilt and recast themselves as victims of wars they had started. Author Patrick Gallagher examines the similarities between West Germany’s myth aimed at men lost in the Soviet Union and America’s myth directed at those missing in Southeast Asia. The differences, however, are instructive, particularly the longevity of the American myth involving a few thousand soldiers compared with the relative short life of the more plau-sible German version involving millions. In search of the nature and meaning of these myths, Gallagher takes us into the wars themselves, the circumstances in which soldiers went missing, and the

Traumatic DefeatPOWs, MIAs, and National MythmakingPatrick Gallagher

manner in which each nation framed its losses according to its own political, ideological, and historical needs.

Traumatic Defeat, the first in-depth comparative study of this phenomenon, reveals how myths conjured in the trauma of military defeat can distort and domi-nate national conversations on the history of warfare, aftermath, and loss.

Patrick Gallagher is a military historian whose work has appeared in journals including Vermont History and the UVM History Review.

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Child Labor in AmericaThe Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children

John A. Fliter

Child labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in

the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century—and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in America tells the story of that historic legal struggle. The book offers the first full account of child labor law in America—from the earliest state regulations to the most recent important Supreme Court decisions and the latest contemporary attacks on existing laws.

Children had worked in America from the time the first settlers arrived on its shores, but public attitudes about working children underwent dramatic changes along with the nation’s economy and culture. A close look at the origins of oppressive child labor clarifies these changing attitudes, providing context for the hard-won legal reforms that followed. Author John A. Fliter describes early attempts to regulate working children, beginning with haphazard and flawed state-level efforts in the 1840s and continuing in limited and ineffective ways as a consensus about the evils of child labor started to build. In the Progressive Era, the issue finally became a matter of national concern, resulting in several laws, four major Supreme Court decisions, an unsuccessful Child Labor Amendment, and the landmark Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Fliter offers a detailed overview of these events, introducing key figures, interest groups, and government officials

on both sides of the debates and incorpo-rating the latest legal and political science research on child labor reform. Unprec-edented in its scope and depth, his work provides critical insight into the role child labor has played in the nation’s social, political, and legal development.

John A. Fliter is associate professor of political science at Kansas State University. He is the coauthor of Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (Kansas).

“By the mid-twentieth century, reformers had forged a national consensus and secured state and federal laws to keep children in school and out of unsafe workplaces, but that consensus is unraveling. This timely history is a wake-up call for twenty-first-century Americans.”

DaviD s. tanenhaUs, author of tHe ConstitutionAL riGHts of CHiLdren: in re gault And JuveniLe JustiCe, 50tH Anniver-sAry edition

“The book’s greatest contri-bution is its comprehensive approach, which starts in the 1840s and continues up to the present day when child labor laws have once again come under fire. This immediately becomes one of the most useful books on American child labor law.”

JaMes Marten, professor of history at marquette university and former president of the soCiety for the history of Children and youth

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“Through a deep and engaging analysis, Tara Kathleen Kelly’s The Hunter Elite provides a refreshing perspective on the critical role that sportsmen and their hunting narratives played in the development of the early environmental movement. This is a valuable study of this important moment in American history.”

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“Kelly’s deep engagement with both the sportsmen themselves—as hunters and writers—and with the expanding modern apparatus of travel, tourism, and publishing offers a compel-ling new framework to see the rise and decline of big-game hunting and the peculiar type of American conservation that emerged from this era.”

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began

describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite reveals new connections among hunting narra-tives, publishing, and the American conservation movement.

Beginning in the 1880s these prolific hunter-writers told readers that big-game hunting was a test of self-restraint and

The Hunter EliteManly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880–1925Tara Kathleen Kelly

“manly virtues,” and that it was not about violence. They also opposed any compari-son between their sportsmanlike hunting and the slaughtering of game by British imperialists, even as they hunted across North America and throughout the British Empire. Their references to Americanism and manliness appealed to traditional values, but they used very modern publishing technologies to sell their stories, and by 1900 they were reaching hundreds of thousands of readers every month. When hunter-writers took up conservation as a cause, they used that reach to rally popular support for the national parks and for legislation that restricted hunting in the United States, Canada, and Newfoundland. The Hunter Elite is the first book to explore both the international nature of American hunting during this period and the essential contributions of hunting narratives and the publishing industry to the North American conservation movement.

Tara Kathleen Kelly is an independent scholar with a PhD in American history from Johns Hopkins University.

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“The topic of the environ-mental impact of marijuana growing is understudied. This book provides new concepts, data, and inter-pretations to guide both future research and policy development and a new forum for the marijuana legalization debate. It fills a glaring gap in the literature and will be foundational for future research and policy development. While there have been a relatively large number of books on the unintended consequences of marijuana prohibition and the War on Drugs, this is the first book to exclusively take a true multidisciplinary focus on an intractable public policy dilemma.”

charles D. kaPlan, assoCiate dean of researCh, hamovitCh Center for sCienCe in the human serviCes, university of southern California

Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing

operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.6 miles of waterlines, and 102 propane bottles. Even as efforts to legalize marijuana accelerate, such “trespass grows” spread exponentially—as does their effect on the environment. The nature of this impact on the land and in the political arena is the pressing issue addressed in Where There’s Smoke. This first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary anthology draws on the insights of scientists, researchers, and activists and ranges across the humani-ties, natural sciences, and social sciences to explore the troubling environmental consequences of illegal marijuana production on public, private, and tribal lands.

Classified as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana has been a central focus of the so-called War on Drugs—with the perverse result of shifting marijuana production from Mexico to the United States and with unanticipated conse-quences for the natural environment. Where There’s Smoke assesses the broad spectrum of the policy’s effect on land and water, flora and fauna, as well as the firsthand challenges faced by those tasked with responding to this tangled and often dangerous state of affairs. In its broad scope, varied perspective, and depth of detail, the book will prove essential to an

Where There’s SmokeThe Environmental Science, Public Policy, and

Politics of MarijuanaEdited by Char Miller

With a Foreword by Jared Huffman

understanding of the complex social and environmental ramifications of marijuana policy and politics in the United States.

Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and the author and editor of many books on environmental history and public lands, including, as author, Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. The California Dream; America’s Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands (with photographer Tim Palmer); and Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conserva-tion Legacy of Gifford Pinchot. He also edited American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics, published by Kansas.

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The Autobiography of William Allen WhiteSecond Edition, Revised and AbridgedWilliam Allen White

Edited by Sally Foreman Griffith

“A heady read, chronicling childhood experi-ences on the edge of the American frontier to adult encounters with presidents and an intriguing assortment of political figures . . . reveals White to a new generation.” —American Journalism

“This Pulitzer Prize winner of 1946 is a fountain of stories about progressivism, political personalities, and the social history of small-town America.”—Journal of the West

“The Griffith edition distills the essence of his character, temperament, philosophy of life, and national importance . . . an American success story of an independent small-town journalist whose skill and moral courage made him a national power in Republican Party politics and modern liberalism.”—Journalism Quarterly

“A crackling good read. Griffith, in slicing off fat and organizing the material more sensibly, has really made the autobiography much more accessible to modern readers. After all, White himself would have done some such editing

job had he lived. . . . Griffith’s introduction is informative and entertaining.”—George Juergens, author of Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World

“Compulsively readable; White knew everyone in his day, and he had a wonderful journalistic talent for the memorable and evocative story. . . . The book is both an important political and cultural document and a lasting example of the autobiographical art, a classic of the genre. I welcome its reissue.” —Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin

Sally Foreman Griffith is the author of Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette and is herself the daughter and granddaughter of small-town newspaper publishers. Now retired, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pesticides, a Love StoryAmerica’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous ChemicalsMichelle Mart

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“An impressive, thought-provoking work of value to historians specializing in the twentieth century, US diplomacy, environmental politics, science and technology, public health, food policy, communications, and other topics pertaining to the ways synthetic chemical pesticides have endured many challenges to become an entrenched part of modern industrial agriculture.”—Journal of American History

“An excellent example of cultural and environ-mental history and a must-read for any student of postwar American environmentalism or postwar US culture in general.” —Environmental History

“An excellent contribution to the growing body of scholarship on synthetic pesticides.” —American Historical Review

“Beyond its accessibility to a broad spectrum of readers, Pesticides, a Love Story offers an impressive breadth of coverage, with sections devoted to the assessment of herbicides, Integrated Pest Management, endocrine disrupters, organic foods, and GMOs, all in addition to the familiar topics like the role of DDT in controlling malaria during WWII.” —H-Net Reviews

Michelle Mart is associate professor of history at Penn State University.

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“This thoughtful study expertly dissects the ‘bullying scourge’ that poisons lives and society, exposing its roots in the institutional structure of a ‘militaristic capitalist culture’ that it reflects and nurtures, while also revealing the encouraging reactions that may offer cures for the malady and the factors that engender it.”—Noam Chomsky

“This is a powerful and compelling book that addresses one of the most important social problems of our time. It should be read by all educators, parents, and anyone else interested in a world free of aggression and violence.” —Henry Giroux, author of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

“Bully Nation is an important example of how intelligent social science can help heal the world. If bullying is rooted in history and structured by institutions, then citizen action can do something about it.”—John Ehrenberg, author of Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea

Bully NationHow the American Establishment Creates a Bullying SocietyCharles Derber and Yale R. Magrass

“Bully Nation is absolutely terrific—an important, powerful, and timely book that should be read by academic and public audiences alike. I imagine using this book in my own courses and am already anticipating with great excitement the important discus-sion that will be opened with my students as they grapple with the bully nation, and with the most important issues facing their generation.”—Jonathan White, coauthor of Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change, and Social Justice

Charles Derber is professor in the Depart-ment of Sociology at Boston College. Yale R. Magrass is chancellor professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

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Right-Wing Critics of American ConservatismGeorge Hawley

“The book’s tone is exquisitely nonjudgmental, but it is clear that Hawley’s interest is not just academic. . . . In chapters on localists, libertarians, paleoconservatives, and white nationalists, he provides thorough summaries of major figures and arguments.”—The American Conservative

“[Hawley] tells an important story about how the conservative movement has been shaped over its history.”—Choice

“An intellectual page-turner, a safari through an exotic world of amusing, strange, compelling, and creepy right-wing political thought. Hawley is an outstanding guide: knowledgable, eloquent, fair, curious, and a great listener.” —Bryan Caplan, author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

“For anyone trying to understand how modern conservatives have worked to create an intellectually legitimate, politically successful movement, this book is essential reading.” —David Farber, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism: A Short History

George Hawley is assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. He is the author of White Voters in 21st Century America and Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S.

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Presidents on Political GroundLeaders in Action and What They FaceBruce Miroff

“In this elegantly written book, Bruce Miroff shifts our thinking about presidential leadership in subtle but profound ways. Pivoting off the familiar ‘action-in-context’ framework, he provides a variegated survey of the ‘political ground’ of presidential leader-ship. We learn that every president acts in multiple contexts and that advantages and pitfalls differ one from the next. Miroff achieves clarity without reductionism. He offers ready access to a densely shaded and multidimensional understanding of the leadership problem.”—Stephen Skowronek, author of Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal

“Miroff’s chapters on media, coalition politics, and domestic policy in particular deserve the attention of all presidential scholars.” —Congress & the Presidency

“What a marvelous book Bruce Miroff has written. With clear and felicitous prose, Miroff offers a number of fresh insights on important topics that are often either marginalized in the literature or wedded to largely unquestioned

assumptions rooted in an earlier era.” —Michael Nelson, author of Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government

“A model of concision and clarity, Bruce Miroff’s Presidents on Political Ground is that rare book that is at once a great read, an important scholarly contribution, and an ideal text for the undergraduate and graduate classrooms.”—Richard J. Ellis, author of Democratic Delusions: The Initiative Process in America and Presidential Lightning Rods: The Politics of Blame Avoidance

Bruce Miroff is professor of political science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His books include The Liberals’ Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party and Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats, both from Kansas.

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Iran-ContraReagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power Malcolm Byrne

“A high-quality, meticulously researched book that sheds much light on a controversy that, nearly three decades ago, shook the American political system to its core. . . . [Malcolm] Byrne, the deputy director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, has been studying the scandal since it first erupted, and he has now pulled together years of research into a very good book that lays the scandal’s ugly intricacies bare.”—Wall Street Journal

“Byrne does not portray Reagan as a passive, disengaged president victimized by maverick policy makers. Through the use of primary sources, the author demonstrates that Reagan was actively involved in every stage of Iran-Contra from its initiation through the cover-up. . . . A must-read for students of the presidency.”—Choice

“The research is thorough, yet Byrne is able to narrate the intricacies of covert actions and legal processes in a digestible way.”—Political Science Quarterly

“It is difficult to write dispassionately about the Iran-Contra affair, and Byrne deserves praise for maintaining his objectivity while laying bare a tale of abuse of power, incompetence, and illegal behavior. The issues he raises are too important to ignore.”—Journal of Ameri-can History

Malcolm Byrne is deputy director and research director at the National Security Archive. He is the coauthor of Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988.

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“Free from Camelot idolatry and untainted by revisionist sensationalism, Perry delivers a nuanced and insightful profile of Jacqueline Kennedy’s fascinating life from debutante to first lady to custodian of her husband’s legacy. More clearly than ever, we can now appreciate how much she changed the institution of first lady and, also, how much it changed her.” —Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite

“Perry has done a superb job, looking beyond the multitude of myths surrounding one of our most enigmatic first ladies to reveal not just what she did but also how her inner circle worked. . . . An important contribution.” —Betty Boyd Caroli, author of First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

“In her clear, engaging study, Perry . . . argues that Jackie exerted an impressive, enduring cultural influence on Washington and the

Jacqueline KennedyFirst Lady of the New FrontierBarbara A. Perry

White House, an influence unsurpassed by other first ladies. . . . Perry’s book has a special focus that has been insufficiently developed in other studies. Although sympathetic to her subject, Perry identifies some of Jackie’s less favorable traits and at times discusses her marriage when it relates to the book’s focus. . . . General readers will find [this book] enjoy-able, and scholars will appreciate its research base.”—History: Reviews of New Books

Barbara A. Perry is director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. Her other books include The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases and, with Henry J. Abraham, Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States.

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Edith Kermit RooseveltCreating the Modern First LadyLewis L. Gould

“Gould provides a balanced and nuanced view of Edith Roosevelt.”—Presidential Studies Quarterly

“By examining the good alongside the bad, Gould provides a robust portrait of a complex private individual thrust into a very public role.”—Booklist

“But Lewis L. Gould’s account of her life and influence is as insightful as it is compact, combining distinguished scholarship with engaging storytelling.”—Weekly Standard

“Edith Roosevelt always makes the short list of ‘best’ first ladies, and this insightful and lively biography explains why. By hiring a compe-tent social secretary and managing the news that went out about her, she helped define a modern role for presidents’ wives. Although she is sometimes touted as a woman who ‘never made a mistake,’ Gould shows she made quite a few. Using newly discovered sources, he portrays a woman whose views on race will surprise some readers, while her charitable activities, especially her ‘handkerchief bureau,’

will cause others to smile. Even readers who thought they knew Edith Roosevelt well will find here a far more interesting and complex woman than they ever imagined.”—Betty Boyd Caroli, author of First Ladies: Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

“Popular readers and Roosevelt scholars alike will learn a lot from Gould’s story of this first lady’s contribution to setting White House social standards, contributing to its musical culture, picking its china and portraits of the first ladies, and creating her role in the remodeling of the White House itself.” —Kathleen Dalton, author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

Lewis L. Gould is the author of many books, including The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics, and The Modern American Presidency.

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