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new books for spring & summer 2020 Recent Awards

Nicole Etcheson is the winner of the No Place Like Home: Lessons in Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Activism from LGBT Kansas by Contributions to Midwestern History. C.J. Janovy is a winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains A Generation at War: The Distinguished Book Prize. Civil War Era in a Northern 308 pages Community Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2528-4, $29.95 384 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2834-6, $19.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1797-5, $39.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2529-1, $19.95 Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era 384 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1492-9, $19.95

Child Labor in America: The Marine, Public Servant, Kansan: Epic Legal Struggle to Protect The Life of Ernest Garcia by Children by John A. Fliter is Dennis Raphael Garcia was a finalist for the David J. awarded first place in the Langum, Sr., Prize in American biography category for the Legal History. International Latino Book 328 pages Awards. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2630-4, $50.00 222 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2631-1, $24.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2667-0, $27.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2632-8, $24.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2668-7, $27.95

Children of the Silent Majority: Hopi Runners: Crossing the Young Voters and the Rise of the Terrain between Indian and Republican Party, 1968–1980 by American by Matthew Seth Blumenthal is the winner Sakiestewa Gilbert is the of the James P. Hanlan Book winner of the 2019 David J. Award from the New England Weber-Clements Prize from the Historical Association. Western History Association. 376 pages 296 pages Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2701-1, $39.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2698-4, $27.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2916-9, $29.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2700-4, $27.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2702-8, $29.95

Cover art: Sioux boys in their Carlisle uniforms, ca. 1880, National Archives. See Education for Extinction, p. 2.

University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | SPORTS NEW BOOKS Native Hoops The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895–1970 Wade Davies

prominent Navajo educator once “Beautifully written and told historian Peter Iverson that deeply researched, Native A“the five major sports on the Hoops shines a bright light Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, on the Native American basketball, basketball, and rodeo.” The passion for basketball, Native American passion for basketball capturing not only the extends far beyond the Navajo, whether accomplishments of genera- on reservations or in cities, among the tions of players on the court young and the old. Why basketball—a relatively new sport—should hold such a but also the special meanings place in Native culture is the question that ‘hoop dreams’ held for Wade Davies takes up in Native Hoops. reservation communities Indian basketball was born of hard across time and space.” times and hard places, its evolution David Wallace Adams, author of traceable back to the boarding schools— Education for Extinction: American or “Indian schools”—of the early Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 and twentieth century. Davies describes the Three Roads to Magdalena: ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of Coming of Age in a Southwest social control and cultural integration, Borderland, 1890–1990 was adopted and transformed by Native students for their own purposes, redemptive power of sport and the ultimately becoming the “Rez ball” that transcendent spirit of Native culture. embodies Native American experience, identity, and community. Native Hoops Wade Davies is professor of Native travels the continent, from Alaska to American studies at the University of North Carolina, tying the rise of basket- Montana, Missoula. His books include ball—and Native sports history—to Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the sweeping educational, economic, social, Twentieth Century; “We Are Still Here”: and demographic trends through the American Indians since 1890, with Peter course of the twentieth century. Along the Iverson; and American Indian Sovereignty way, the book highlights the toils and and Law: An Annotated Bibliography, with triumphs of well-known athletes, like Richmond L. Clow. Jim Thorpe and the 1904 Fort Shaw girls’ team, even as it brings to light the remarkable accomplishments of those whom history has, until now, left behind. FEBRUARY The first comprehensive history of 400 pages, 35 photographs, 6 x 9 American Indian basketball, Native Hoops Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2908-4, $50.00(s) tells a story of hope, achievement, and Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2909-1, $24.95(t) celebration—a story that reveals the Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2910-7, $24.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 1 NEW BOOKS NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | EDUCATION HISTORY Education for Extinction American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

David Wallace Adams

25th Anniversary Edition he last “Indian War” was fought against Native American children in “What a triumph! Adams Tthe dormitories and classrooms of has masterfully reworked, government boarding schools. Only by reinterpreted, and reframed removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, an enlarged version of his policymakers reasoned, could white classic book by drawing on “civilization” take root while childhood new research by Indian and memories of “savagism” gradually faded non-Indian scholars over the to the point of extinction. In the words of past twenty-five years. one official: “Kill the Indian in him and Education for Extinction is a save the man.” foundational study for anyone This fully revised edition of Education interested in boarding for Extinction offers the only comprehen- schools, Indian education, sive account of this dispiriting effort, and and American history.” it incorporates the last twenty-five years who seemingly cooperated with the of scholarship. Much more than a study system were more than passive players in Clifford E. Trafzer, distinguished professor of history and Rupert of federal Indian policy, this book vividly this drama, that the response of accom- Costo Chair in American Indian details the day-to-day experiences of modation was not synonymous with Affairs, University of California, Indian youth living in a “total institution” cultural surrender. This is especially Riverside designed to reconstruct them both apparent in his analysis of students who psychologically and culturally. The assault returned to the reservation and worked “A story worth reading and on identity came in many forms: shearing for tribal survival. remembering, one that off of braids, assignment of new names, Based upon extensive use of govern- reveals the use of education uniformed drill routines, humiliating ment archives, Indian and teacher as a weapon of war and a punishments, relentless attacks on Native autobiographies, and school newspapers, method of domination. A religious beliefs, patriotic indoctrinations, Adams’s moving account is essential strong lesson in the potential suppression of tribal languages, Victorian reading for scholars and general readers for education to become gender rituals, football contests, and alike interested in Western history, Native American studies, American race part of a political and industrial training. Especially poignant is Adams’s relations, education history, and multicul- cultural arsenal.” description of the ways in which students turalism. American Journal of Education resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many converted to David Wallace Adams is professor varying degrees, but others plotted emeritus at Cleveland State University JUNE escapes, committed arson, and devised and the author of Three Roads to Magdalena: 472 pages, 32 photographs, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2959-6, $50.00(s) ingenious strategies of passive resistance. Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2960-2, $19.95(s) Adams also argues that many of those 1890–1990, also from Kansas.

2 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS The Hanford Plaintiffs Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice Trisha T. Pritikin With an Introduction by Karen Dorn Steele

or more than four decades beginning The Hanford Plaintiffs draws a damning “The Hanford Plaintiffs is an in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons picture of the failure of the US Congress extraordinary and unique Ffacility in southeastern Washington and the judiciary to defend the American exposé of the human results State secretly blanketed much of the public and to adequately redress a of deliberate releases of Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing catastrophic wrong. Documenting the huge quantities of radioactive legal, medical, and human cost of one radiation, the by-product of plutonium isotopes from the Hanford production. For those who lived in the community’s struggle for justice, this reactors and nuclear complex vicinity, many of them families of Hanford book conveys in clear and urgent terms over many years of operation.” workers, the consequences soon became the damage done to ordinary Americans apparent as rates of illness and death in the name of business, progress, and Helen Caldicott, MD steadily climbed—despite repeated patriotism. assurances from the Atomic Energy “Timely and compelling, with Commission that the facility posed no Trisha T. Pritikin is a lawyer and president the experiences and voices threat. Trisha T. Pritikin, who has battled of the board of directors of the Conse- of impacted people at its a lifetime of debilitating illness to become quences of Radiation Exposure (CORE) core, The Hanford Plaintiffs a lawyer and advocate for her fellow Museum and Archives, a nonprofit is one of the most important “downwinders,” tells the devastating story organization whose mission is to increase works on Hanford to date. of those who were harmed in Hanford’s public awareness of the human toll of These twenty-four oral wake and, seeking answers and justice, exposure to ionizing radiation. She lives histories—coupled with were subjected to yet more suffering. in Berkeley, California. Pritikin’s eloquent and At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs accessible analysis of are the oral histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford Nuclear nuclear history, dose Reservation Litigation, the class-action reconstruction science, and lawsuit that sought recognition of, and toxic tort law—make this recompense for, the grievous injuries book essential reading for knowingly caused by Hanford. Radioactive citizens and professionals contamination of American communities alike.” was not uncommon during the wartime Sarah Alisabeth Fox, author of Manhattan Project, nor during the Cold Downwind: A People’s History of War nuclear buildup that followed. the Nuclear West Pritikin interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the heartrending details of personal illness, MARCH loss, and, ultimately, persistence in the 360 pages, 53 photographs, 1 map, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2903-9, $60.00(s) face of a legal system that protects the Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2904-6, $28.95(t) government on all fronts and at all costs, Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2905-3, $28.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 3 NEW BOOKS PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US HISTORY Presidential Leadership in Political Time Reprise and Reappraisal Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Stephen Skowronek

A best-selling classic with n this expanded third edition, a new chapter on President renowned scholar Stephen Skowronek Donald J. Trump. Iaddresses Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Skowronek’s insights have fundamentally “With this brilliant work, altered our understanding of the American presidency. His “political time” thesis has Skowronek scans the been particularly influential, revealing centuries to illuminate the how presidents reckon with the work of dynamics that have made their predecessors, situate their power some presidents the master within recent political events, and assert of political time—and others their authority in the service of change. its victim.” A classic widely used in courses on the Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles presidency, Skowronek’s book has greatly Times national affairs columnist expanded our understanding of and debates over the politics of leadership. It “Brief, accessible, and clarifies the typical political problems that captivating, this is an presidents confront in political time as important contribution to well as the likely effects of their working Republican Party, of conservative advocacy our understanding of through them. It also considers contem- of the “unitary theory” of the executive, presidential leadership in porary innovations in our political system and of progressive disillusionment with American politics.” that bear on the leadership patterns from the presidency as an institution. the more distant past. Drawing out A provocative review of presidential Political Science Quarterly parallels in the politics of leadership history, Skowronek’s book brims with between Andrew Jackson and Franklin fresh insights and opens a window on the “A brilliant, provocative Roosevelt and between James Polk and institution of the executive office and the reading of presidential John Kennedy, it develops a new and workings of American politics. history that sparkles with revealing perspective on the presidential originality and insight.” leadership of Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Richard Ellis, author of now Trump. Professor of Political Science at Yale Founding the American Presidency In this third edition Skowronek University. In addition to The Politics carefully examines the impact of recent Presidents Make—winner of the J. David developments in government and politics Greenstone Prize and the Richard E. on traditional leadership postures and Neustadt Prize—he is the author of their enactment, given the current divided Building a New American State and JANUARY state of the American polity, the impact coauthor, with Karen Orren, of The Search 280 pages, 5½ x 8½ of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, of a for American Political Development and Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2942-8, $50.00(s) more disciplined and homogeneous The Policy State: An American Predicament. Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2943-5, $19.95(s)

4 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS | PRESIDENCY STUDIES NEW BOOKS Clinton’s Elections 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance Michael Nelson

n the presidential elections of 1980, between Republican administrations, it is “An absorbing and well-written 1984, and 1988, the three Democratic easy to forget that he revived a presidential analysis of a crucial devel- Inominees won an average of about party that had become nearly moribund. opment in American political 10 percent of the Electoral College vote— In Clinton’s Elections Michael Nelson history, this book should be a smaller share than any party in any describes how, by tacking relentlessly to of great significance to three consecutive presidential elections in the center, Clinton revived the Democrats’ anyone interested in the US history. In the next seven elections, presidential fortunes—but also, paradoxi- modern age of US politics.” Democrats won the popular vote in all cally, effectively erased the center, in the but one (2004), a feat not achieved by a process introducing the new political Burton I. Kaufman, author of The Post-Presidency from political party since the Democratic reality of extreme partisan divisiveness Washington to Clinton Party’s inception in the 1820s. What and dysfunctional government. Tracing separated these record-setting runs was Clinton’s place in American politics from “Nelson masterfully argues the election and presidency of Bill his emergence as a potential nominee in that Clinton’s centrism—the Clinton, whose pivotal role in ushering in 1988 to his role in political campaigns a new era of American politics—for better right up to 2016, Nelson draws a deft very core of his electoral and for worse—this book explores. portrait of a savvy politician operating in successes—ironically Perhaps because Clinton’s presidency the midst of divided government and resulted in the polarized was hobbled by six years of divided making strategic moves to consolidate extremism of twenty-first- government, ended in a sex scandal and power and secure future victories. With century American politics.” impeachment, and was sandwiched its absorbing narrative and incisive Barbara A. Perry, author of analysis, his book makes sense of a Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of watershed in the modern American the New Frontier and The political landscape—and lays bare the Michigan Affirmative Action Cases roots of our current era of political dysfunction.

Michael Nelson, Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, the author of Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government (Kansas), and the winner of the American Political Science Associa- tion’s Richard E. Neustadt Award. MARCH 328 pages, 16 photographs, 5 tables, 6 x 9 American Presidential Elections Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2917-6, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2918-3, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 5 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | US POLITICS | PRESIDENCY STUDIES Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation Richard J. Ellis

“This book is essential for sually remembered for its slogan this analysis, the convention’s selection, anyone attempting to under- “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” the as well as Henry Clay’s postconvention stand the presidential politics Uelection of 1840 is also the first words and deeds, emerge as crucial of the Jacksonian era and its presidential election of which it might be factors in the shaping of the nineteenth- modern-day influence.” truly said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” century partisan nation. Exploring the Tackling a contest best known for log puzzle of why the Whig Party’s political Mark R. Cheathem, professor of cabins, cider barrels, and catchy songs, titan Henry Clay lost out to a relative history at Cumberland University, project director of the Papers of this timely volume reveals that the political also-ran, Ellis teases out the role Martin Van Buren, and author election of 1840 might be better under- the fluctuating economy and growing of The Coming of Democracy: stood as a case study of how profoundly antislavery sentiment played in the party’s Presidential Campaigning in the the economy shapes the presidential vote. fateful decision to nominate the Harrison- Age of Jackson Richard J. Ellis, a veteran scholar of Tyler ticket. His work dismantles the presidential politics, suggests that the caricature of the 1840 campaign (a.k.a. “Combining tales of rivalry, election pitting the Democratic incumbent the “carnival campaign”) as all froth and rumor, and intrigue with Martin Van Buren against Whig William no substance, instead giving due serious- careful analysis of voting Henry Harrison should also be remem- ness to the deeply held moral commit- returns and grassroots politics, bered as the first presidential election in ments and anxieties about the political this finely conceived and which a major political party selected— system that informed the campaign. highly readable book estab- rather than merely anointed—its nominee In Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox, the campaign lishes beyond doubt that at a national nominating convention. In of 1840 can finally be seen clearly for the 1840 election was not what it was: a contest of two profoundly different visions of policy and governance, simply a rollicking carnival including fundamental, still-pressing of log cabins and scurrilous questions about the place of the presidency personality politics but also and Congress in the US political system. a serious conflict of issues and policies arising out of Richard J. Ellis is Mark O. Hatfield a disastrous nationwide Professor of Politics, Policy, Law, and economic downturn.” Ethics at Willamette University. His many Donald Ratcliffe, author of The books include The Development of the One-Party Presidential Contest: American Presidency (Third Edition), Adams, Jackson, and 1824’s Historian in Chief: How Presidents Interpret Five-Horse Race the Past to Shape the Future (as coeditor), and, from Kansas, Presidential Travel: The Journey from George Washington to JUNE George W. Bush. 520 pages, 21 illustrations, 14 tables, 6 x 9 American Presidential Elections Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2945-9, $39.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2946-6, $39.95

6 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS | PRESIDENCY STUDIES NEW BOOKS The Election of the Evangelical Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 Daniel K. Williams

the election was that a self-described “To understand current US evangelical Christian and improbably politics, look to the election dark-horse candidate from the Deep of 1976. That’s the argument South had won the presidency, leading that Daniel K. Williams Newsweek to call 1976 the “year of the makes—quite convincingly— evangelical.” What pundits overlooked at in this well-researched, the time, and what Daniel K. Williams engaging account of a delves into in this book, was the profound crucial presidential race that effect of the election on the nation’s political parties. In the first comprehen- often gets overlooked.” sive historical study of this consequential Matthew Pressman, assistant election, Williams mines untapped professor of journalism, Seton Hall University archival materials to uncover the strategies of the Ford, Carter, and Reagan campaigns and Republican and Democratic leaders “The presidential election of rom where we stand now, the in 1976. His work explains why, despite 1976 changed modern election of 1976 can look like an Ford’s and Carter’s efforts to the contrary, American politics in every Falternate reality: southern white the 1976 presidential election reshaped conceivable way. Daniel evangelicals united with African Americans, the political parties along ideologically Williams tells this important northern Catholics, and Jews in support polarized lines. As he examines the role tale with prose that crackles of a Democratic presidential candidate; that religion and “values voting” played and with the pace of a the Republican candidate, a social in 1976, Williams reveals why Carter was political thriller.” moderate whose wife proudly proclaimed the last Democrat to hold together a New John Robert Greene, author of her support for Roe v. Wade, was able to Deal–style coalition of white southern I Like Ike: The Presidential win over Great Plains farmers as well as evangelicals, northern Catholics, and Election of 1952 cultural liberals in Oregon, California, African Americans. His findings dispel Connecticut, and New Jersey—even as he the most common myths about why lost Ohio, Texas, and nearly the entire Ford lost the election and clarify what South. The Election of the Evangelical his defeat meant for the future of the offers an unprecedented, behind-the- Republican Party. headlines analysis of this now almost unimaginable political moment, which Daniel K. Williams is professor of history proved to be a pivotal turning point in at the University of West Georgia. He is polarizing American political parties and the author of God’s Own Party: The Making FEBRUARY eventually in destroying the coalition that of the Christian Right and Defenders of the 464 pages, 25 photographs, 6 x 9 Jimmy Carter created. Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before American Presidential Elections Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2912-1, $39.95(s) The big story immediately following Roe v. Wade. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2913-8, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 7 NEW BOOKS WORLD WAR I | MILITARY HISTORY | US HISTORY The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood and Soissons History and Battlefield Guide J. Michael Miller Foreword by Lt. Gen. Richard P. Mills, USMC (Ret.)

“The Marine Corps’ list of he battles of Belleau Wood and With its strategic overview and defining battles is long— Soissons in June and July of 1918 ground-level perspective, Miller’s work Iwo Jima, Chosin Reservoir, Tmarked a turning point in World suggests a new interpretation and offers a Khe Sanh. But this compre- War I and in the stature of the US Marine new experience of an iconic moment in hensively researched work Corps, whose fighting proved so critical American military history—and in the demonstrates that none in repelling the Germans that the French story of the Marine Corps. would later rename Belleau “Bois de la overshadow Belleau Wood Brigade de Marine.” In this book J. Michael J. Michael Miller is the former lead and its aftermath.” Miller, a historian of the Marine Corps historian of the Marine Corps History Dennis Showalter, author of and veteran chronicler of battle, takes us Division at Marine Corps University, Instrument of War: The German to the battlefields of Belleau Wood and Quantico, Virginia. From 2005 to 2013 Army 1914–18 Soissons, immersing us in the experience he was director of the Marine Corps of a single brigade of Marines at the Archives. His books include From Shanghai “Many historians have written forefront of the fighting. Through a to Corregidor: Marines in the Defense of the about the Marines’ experi- close-up look at the doughboys’ singular Philippines. ence during the Great War, impact on Allied victory in 1918, his but few can match the power work illuminates America’s bloody and perceptiveness of sacrifice during World War I. Miller’s chronicle of the The 4th Marine Brigade at Belleau Wood 4th Marine Brigade.” and Soissons for the first time treats these

Richard S. Faulkner, author of two battles as one campaign and demon- Pershing’s Crusaders: The strates why it is impossible to fully American Soldier in World War I understand one without the other. Miller outlines the company and platoon levels of combat throughout the campaign, establishing a basic tactical understanding of the fighting; he also draws on letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews to create a vivid and personal reconstruction of the battles. His use of French and German sources, also a first, adds unprecedented insights to this boots-on-the-ground account. The book includes detailed JUNE mapping of both battlefields, with a 472 pages, 26 photographs, thirty-six-stop guide linking the text with 1 1 22 maps, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 the actual terrain. For each of these stops Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2956-5, $65.00(s) Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2957-2, $27.95(t) Miller gives GPS coordinates to provide a Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2958-9, $27.95 virtual tour of the sites he discusses.

8 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | VIETNAM WAR NEW BOOKS The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire War, Remembrance, and an American Tragedy Steven Trout

great white angel spreading her “Steven Trout’s extensive wings across the Moreno Valley: research and lively storytell- Athis is how one visitor described ing on this significant topic the memorial standing atop a windswept contributes meaningfully to prominence in the Sangre de Cristo our understanding of the Mountains near Taos, New Mexico. A Vietnam War and its role in de facto national Vietnam veterans our national memory. The memorial, built by one family more than Vietnam Veterans Memorial at a decade before the Wall in Washington, Angel Fire is a dramatic human DC, and without aid or recognition from the US government, the chapel at Angel interest story, well told, and Fire is a testament to one young Ameri- highly recommended.” can’s sacrifice—but also to the profound Kyle Longley, author of The determination of his family to find Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small meaning in their loss. In The Vietnam Town America and the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire, Steven Trout tells the story of Marine Lieutenant “Combining biography, David Westphall, who was killed near history, and memory, Con Thien on May 22, 1968, and of the Steven Trout has given us Westphall family’s subsequent struggle to an insightful and clear-eyed create and maintain a one-of-a-kind American soldier’s tragic story and the view of the first national memorial chapel dedicated to the memory monument to hope and peace that it Vietnam veterans memorial of all Americans lost in the Vietnam War inspired. and the family that con- and to the cause of world peace. structed it.” Focused primarily on a life lost amid Steven Trout is professor of English, Christian G. Appy, author of our nation’s most controversial conflict chair of the Department of English, and American Reckoning: The Vietnam and on the Westphalls’ desperate battle to codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Our National Identity keep their chapel open between 1971 and War and Memory at the University of 1982, the book’s brisk and moving South Alabama. His books include On the narrative traces the memorial’s evolution Battlefield of Memory: The First World War from a personal act of family remem- and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 brance to its emergence as an iconic and Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and pilgrimage destination for thousands of the First World War. Vietnam veterans. Documenting the MAY chapel’s shifting messages over time, 240 pages, 33 photographs, which include a momentary (and contro- 2 maps, 6 x 9 versial) recognition of the dead on both Modern War Studies sides of the war, The Vietnam Veterans Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2933-6, $50.00(s) Memorial at Angel Fire spotlights one Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2934-3, $19.95(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2935-0, $19.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 9 NEW BOOKS ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | MILITARY HISTORY | US HISTORY Nature’s Army When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite Expanded Edition

Harvey Meyerson Foreword by Beth Bailey

“A lively, readable, and, for “ lessings on Uncle Sam’s soldiers! many, surprising story. They have done their job well, and These army officers not only Bevery pine tree is waving its arms rigorously carried out their for joy.”—John Muir task of protecting Yosemite Muir’s words and this book both celebrate but, in the process, demon- a crucial but largely forgotten episode in strated a clear understanding our nation’s history—how, a generation of and genuine sensitivity to prior to the creation of a National Park the environment.” Service, the US Army ran Yosemite Edward M. Coffman, author of National Park in an unusual alliance with The Old Army: A Portrait of the the fabled preservationist John Muir and American Army in Peacetime, 1784–1898 his Sierra Club. Harvey Meyerson brings that largely forgotten episode in our nation’s history to life and uses it as a writing detailed reports describing “Unravels the mystery of how touchstone for a reconsideration of a climate, weather, physical terrain, the US Army came to work century of civilian-military cooperation ecosystems, and the diverse flora and with the Sierra Club to lay in environmental protection and infra- fauna populating the lands they explored the foundations for Yosemite structure construction whose impact and and often protected during an era of wide- National Park and the relevance still resonate. open exploitation of natural resources. National Park Service. Despite the worldwide renown and Such experience made the army better Meyerson reveals that the popularity of Yosemite National Park, few suited than any other federal agency to culture of these institutions people know that its first stewards were oversee the early national park system. had much in common. A drawn from the so-called Old Army. Combining environmental, military, gripping, probing, and From 1890 until the establishment of the political, and cultural history, Meyerson’s enjoyable story.” National Park Service in 1916, these study is especially timely in light of soldiers proved to be extremely competent Yosemite’s enormous popularity (four Michael McCloskey, chairman, and farsighted wilderness managers. Sierra Club, 1985–1999 million visitors annually) and recent Meyerson recaptures the forgotten history controversies pitting conservation forces of these early environmentalists and how against dam builders and proponents of they set significant standards for the expanded public access. future oversight of our national parks. The army, Meyerson suggests, had Harvey Meyerson has worked as a actually been well prepared to assume journalist in the US and overseas; as an APRIL this stewardship. During its first hundred aide to a US senator; a scholar with a 368 pages, 10 photographs, 6 x 9 years—and despite the interruptions of doctorate in American history; and a Modern War Studies warfare—its soldiers had crisscrossed the public policy specialist with the Library of Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2950-3, $24.95(t) American landscape, preparing maps and Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2951-0, $24.95 Congress’s Congressional Research Service.

10 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | MILITARY HISTORY | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS Watching over Yellowstone The US Army’s Experience in America’s First National Park, 1886–1918 Thomas C. Rust

hen, in 1883, Congress charged What this meant for the average soldier “Rust’s Watching over the US Army with managing emerges from the materials Rust consults: Yellowstone serves as the WYellowstone National Park, orders, circulars, inspection reports, most-detailed account of soldiers encountered a new sort of court-martial cases, civilian accounts, and soldiers’ lives and service as hostility: work they were untrained for evidence from excavated soldier stations the guardians of Yellowstone in a daunting physical and social environ- in the park. A nuanced social history National Park.” ment where they weren’t particularly from a rare ground-level perspective, his Kevin Adams, associate professor welcome. When they departed in 1918, book captures an extraordinary moment of history, Kent State University America had a new sort of serviceman: in the story of America’s military and its the National Park Service ranger. From national parks. “A fascinating account of how the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the conclusion of the army’s superin- Thomas C. Rust is professor of history at soldiers struggled with an tendence, Watching over Yellowstone tells Montana State University Billings. He is unconventional assignment the boots-on-the-ground story of the the author of Lost Fort Ellis: A Frontier while laying a solid founda- US troops charged with imposing order History of Bozeman as well as articles in tion for the National Park on man and nature in America’s first many publications, including Montana: Service that replaced them. national park. The Magazine of Western History, Watching over Yellowstone is Yellowstone National Park had been Archaeology in Montana, and Military an important contribution to created only fourteen years before Captain History of the West. military history and the Moses Harris arrived at Mammoth Hot history of our national parks.” Springs with his company, Troop M of the Harvey Meyerson, author of First US Cavalry, in August of 1886. And Nature’s Army: When Soldiers in those years, the underfunded, poorly Fought for Yosemite supervised park had been visited freely by overeager tourists, vandals, and poachers. Thomas C. Rust describes the task confronting Congress, military superintendents, and the common soldiers as the ever-increasing number of tourists, commercial interests, and politics stained the unruly park. At a time when the army was already undergoing a great transformation, the common soldiers were now struggling with unusual duties in unfamiliar terrain, often in unaccus- JUNE 280 pages, 75 photographs, tomed proximity to the social elite who 1 1 11 figures, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 dominated the tourist class—fertile if Modern War Studies uncertain ground for both the failures and Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2940-4, $55.00(s) the successes that eventually shaped the Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2961-9, $24.95(t) National Park Service’s ranger corps. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2941-1, $24.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 11 NEW BOOKS CIVIL WAR | US HISTORY The Union Assaults at Vicksburg Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17–22, 1863 Timothy B. Smith

“Tim Smith has done it again. t was the third week of May 1863, Establishing a day-to-day—and His book on U. S. Grant’s and after seven months and six occasionally minute-to-minute—time line first attack on Vicksburg is Iattempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally for this crucial week, military historian another tour de force. There at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What Timothy B. Smith invites readers to follow is no other historian who followed was a series of attacks and the Vicksburg assaults as they unfold. His maneuvers against the last major section finely detailed account reaches from the knows Civil War battles, of the Mississippi River controlled by the offices of statesmen and politicians to the especially the conflict at Confederacy—and one of the most field of battle, with exacting analysis and Vicksburg, better than Smith.” important operations of the Civil War. insight that ranges from the highest level John F. Marszalek, Giles Grant intended to end the campaign of planning and command to the combat Distinguished Professor Emeritus quickly by assault, but the stalwart experience of the common soldier. As of History and executive director and managing editor, Ulysses S. defense of Vicksburg’s garrison changed closely observed and vividly described as Grant Presidential Library, his plans. The Union Assaults at Vicksburg each assault is, Smith’s book also puts the Mississippi State University is the first comprehensive account of sum of these battles into the larger context this quick attempt to capture Vicksburg, of the Vicksburg Campaign as well as the “The book features a synopsis which proved critical to the Union’s entire war. His deeply informed, in-depth of events preceding the ultimate success and Grant’s eventual work thus provides the first full view of a Vicksburg Campaign, covers solidification as one of the most significant key but little-studied turning point in the the campaign, chronicles military commanders in American history. fortunes of the Union army in the West, Ulysses S. Grant, and the United States of the assaults, and concludes America. with firsthand accounts from the noncombatants in Timothy B. Smith teaches history at Vicksburg. In short, this the University of Tennessee at Martin. valuable work provides His many books include, most recently, something for everyone.” Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles Brig. Gen. (Ret.) J. Parker for Forts Henry and Donelson as well as Hills, coauthor of Receding Tide: Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation and Vicksburg and Gettysburg—The Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, all published by Campaigns That Changed the the University Press of Kansas. Civil War

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12 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu MILITARY HISTORY | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS Feeding Victory Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh Jobie Turner

n army, Lewis Mumford once “Only rarely does one find a observed, “is a body of pure military professional who is Aconsumers”—and it is logistics that also a first-rate historian of feeds this body’s insatiable appetite for the art and science of men and materiel. Successful logistics— supplying combat forces in the transportation of supplies and war and the ramifications for combatants to battle—cannot guarantee past, present, and future victory, but poor logistics portends defeat. strategy. This is a unique In Feeding Victory, Jobie Turner asks how work that deserves the technical innovation has affected this connection over time and whether widest audience.” advances in technology, from the railroad Richard R. Muller, professor of and the airplane to the nuclear weapon history, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and the computer, have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical “Feeding Victory is a welcome dynamics. and thoughtful addition to Covering a span of three hundred the understanding and years, Feeding Victory focuses on five importance of military distinct periods of technological change, of technology to logistics and logistics to logistics. No other available from the Preindustrial Era to the informa- geopolitics? In asking these questions, book accomplishes what tion age. For each era Turner presents a Turner discovers just how critical the Colonel Turner achieves case study: the campaign for Lake George biological needs of the soldiers on the through his careful and from 1755 to 1759, the Western Front in battlefield prove to be; in fact, they insightful attention to the 1917, the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, overwhelm firepower in their importance, importance of military the Battle of Stalingrad from 1942 to even in the modern era. His work shows logistics from the French and 1943, and the Battle of Khe Sanh in 1968. how logistics aptly represents technological Indian War to Vietnam.” In each of these cases the logistics of the shifts from the Enlightenment to the dawn belligerents were at their limit because of of the twenty-first century and how, in Vice Admiral (Ret.) Mark geography or the vast material needs of our time, ideas have come to trump the Harnitchek, former director of the Defense Logistics Agency and war. With such limits, the case studies material forces of war. former vice commander of US both give a clear accounting of the Transportation Command logistics of the period, particularly with Jobie Turner, a colonel in the US Air respect to the mode of transportation— Force, is the commander of the 314th whether air, land, or sea—and reveal the Operations Group, Little Rock Air Force inflection points between success and Base, Arkansas. FEBRUARY failure. 400 pages, 14 illustrations, 16 maps, 18 tables, 6 x 9 What are the continuities between Modern War Studies eras, Turner asks, and what can these Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2914-5, $39.95(s) campaigns tell us about the relationship Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2915-2, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 13 NEW BOOKS MILITARY HISTORY Defense Engagement since 1900 Global Lessons in Soft Power Edited by Greg Kennedy

“Defense diplomacy is an here is more to defense than military tackling the causes of designated security understudied and underap- might and more to the military than threats, not merely managing their preciated role of the armed Ta fighting force. At a moment of consequences. forces. This volume highlights global upheaval, domestic turmoil, and The chapters, by scholars and practi- how defense diplomacy has political uncertainty, this timely volume tioners representing diverse points of seeks to define and reframe the terms of view, focus primarily on the British worked over time and in a defense engagement—the use of military experience—perhaps the most extensive number of different historical capabilities to exert soft power (influence) example of the use of military power in a contexts. As an introduction as opposed to hard power (military force). nonmartial fashion in pursuit of policy to the practical applications Defense Engagement since 1900 is a work goals. However, the chapters also consider and issues involved, this of applied military history that brings events in the United States, Canada, book is both a useful and lessons of the past to bear on current Japan, the Middle East, and Africa. stimulating read.” issues. In a number of case studies Intelligence, diplomacy, deterrence, Matthew C. Ford, senior spanning the twentieth century and the alliances, coalitions, and networks: all are lecturer, University of Sussex globe, the authors explore various within the authors’ scope as they address dimensions of defense engagement. Their the need to use a wide range of attributes “There is much talk about work, which attempts to recast the role of and capabilities associated with military ‘bridge books’ that scholars, a state’s military from wielder of force to power in various contemporary conflicts practitioners, and interested employer of power, is squarely aimed at and national security strategies. The general readers can all learn understanding their work provides will from and value. There is prove critically important to strategic thinkers of our day, as democratic states even more talk about ‘filling increasingly contend with hybrid, a gap in our knowledge.’ subthreshold, and Gray Zone warfare. Some books achieve one of those objectives. Defense Greg Kennedy is a professor in the Engagement since 1900 is a Defence Studies Department, King’s rare and impressive example College London, at the Joint Services of a volume that does both.” Command and Staff College. Brian P. Farrell, professor of history, National University of Singapore

JUNE 304 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, 6 x 9 Modern War Studies Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2947-3, $65.00(s) Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2948-0, $29.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2949-7, $29.95

14 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu POLITICAL SCIENCE NEW BOOKS The Eclipse of the Demos The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism Kyong-Min Son

s populism presaging authoritarian- The Eclipse of the Demos envisions an “The Eclipse of the Demos ism surges worldwide and political answer to our present predicament: a offers a striking account of Arights and civil liberties erode, democracy that rests on a demos engaging the current fate of democ- pundits, politicians, and political scientists in collective inquiry and judgment rather racy in the North Atlantic agree: democracy is in crisis. But where than on a group of individuals concerned world and puts paid to many blame the rise of neoliberalism, exclusively with their private welfare. By presentist accounts of Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer providing a clearer understanding of neoliberalism and right-wing historical perspective is in order. His democracy before neoliberalism, this ascendance.” book, The Eclipse of the Demos, traces the book begins the hard work of realizing crisis of democracy back to a fateful that vision. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, author of Political Responsibility: transformation of democratic theory Responding to Predicaments of during the Cold War, when the idea of the Kyong-Min Son is associate professor of Power demos—a public body configured for the political science and international common good—gave way to a view of relations at the University of Delaware. “Kyong-Min Son’s illuminating democracy as an instrument used by book shows that skepticism individuals to serve their private interests. about democracy ran down While the postwar pressures of totalitarianism and communism did not the mainstream of scholarly directly cause this transformation, Son conversation after 1945. contends that they did activate instru- There was no Golden Age. mental democracy’s three constitutive To understand the challenge motifs: fear of the masses, faith in rational to democracy posed by systemic management, and an ambiva- neoliberalism, we must lence about the relationship between reckon with the entire capitalism and democracy. Forged of these postwar period.” elements drawn from disparate intellectual Quinn Slobodian, author of traditions, instrumental democracy Globalists: The End of Empire and displaced a citizenry disposed to judge the Birth of Neoliberalism competing public claims according to the principles of the common good and political equality. In the instrumental model, citizens are seen as consumers whose political claims are equivalent— simply because each is willing to pay the same price: a vote. It is this transactional view of democracy, Son argues, that led to the unchallenged dominance of finance MAY capital and growing social divisions that 272 pages, 4 figures, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2919-0, $65.00(s) have fueled the rise of neoliberalism. Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2920-6, $28.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2921-3, $28.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 15 NEW BOOKS POLITICAL SCIENCE | PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION The Power of Accountability Offices of Inspector General at the State and Local Levels Robin J. Kempf

“Robin Kempf walks us Migrant children separated from their accountability, and what are their limita- step-by-step through the parents. tions? In The Power of Accountability Robin J. Kempf sets out to address these considerations involved in A scheme to defraud Cook County using questions with empirical data and to creating offices of inspector property tax breaks. general (OIGs) and in doing examine the conflicts that have led to An undisclosed thirty-year business rela- so provides us with a rich variations in the design and implementa- tionship between city officials in Baltimore. tion of OIGs. In doing so she explores the account—as ethnographic as power of the concept of the inspector it is statistically informed— hese are the sorts of headlines general: an institutional model for of the institutionalization of regularly generated by offices of keeping subnational government units one of our primary contem- Tinspector general (OIGs)—bureau- accountable to the public. porary modes of public cratic units dedicated to government As more and more government entities accountability.” accountability that are commonly have created offices of inspector general, Nadia Hilliard, author of The independent of the agencies they are practitioners in this developing field have Accountability State: US Federal charged with overseeing. In 1976, OIGs recommended an archetypal structure for Inspectors General and the Pur- were virtually unheard of and were largely these agencies that assures their authority suit of Democratic Integrity at the federal level, but today there are and independence. Why then, The Power more than 170 OIGs overseeing state and of Accountability asks, have so many states “The Power of Accountability local government entities. Why have and localities incorporated significant is a valuable contribution to OIGs been so widely adopted, and what deviations from this recommended model our knowledge and under- do they do? How do they contribute to in their design? Through an extensive standing of state and local review of government websites, laws, and offices of inspector general, ordinances; original surveys of the accountability institutions identified OIGs; legislative histories; and that have been created and interviews with thirty-eight OIG staff in have evolved over the past eight states, Kempf analyzes why OIGs four decades but have, until have proliferated, why and how they work differently in various jurisdictions, now, received little attention and what effect these variations in design from researchers.” have on the effectiveness of OIGs as a Dan Ahern, Clarus Group mechanism of accountability. The Power of Accountability is a uniquely useful resource for judging whether, under what circumstances, and how well OIGs fulfill their intended purpose and serve the public interest. JANUARY 192 pages, 4 figures, 32 tables, 6 x 9 Studies in Government and Public Policy Robin J. Kempf is assistant professor at Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2897-1, $45.00(s) the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2898-8, $45.00 University of New York.

16 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu POLITICAL SCIENCE NEW BOOKS Stating the Family New Directions in the Study of American Politics Edited by Julie Novkov and Carol Nackenoff

lance at a political party’s platform, politics—and that politics does to “For far too long political catch a politician’s speech, or structure families. scientists have ignored the Gsample the news and you will find role that the family plays in the family—not as a mere group of people Julie Novkov is professor of political constituting political power. living together in the private sphere, but science and women’s, gender, and This pathbreaking collection as a contentious entity at the center of sexuality studies at the University of of essays centralizes the political disputes and policy debates over Albany, State University of New York. family, moving across political everything from marriage equality and time and space. . . . A gender identity to immigration and Carol Nackenoff is the Richter Professor fascinating rethinking of the welfare reform. The key role of the family of Political Science at Swarthmore in politics and public policy, so often College. way that the state and relegated to the outer margins of political family work together to science and theory, comes in for long Nackenoff and Novkov are the coeditors produce and undermine overdue consideration in this volume. of Statebuilding from the Margins: Between power and freedom.” Bringing together political scientists and Reconstruction and the New Deal. Susan Burgess, distinguished legal scholars of wide-ranging interests professor of Political Science, and perspectives, Stating the Family Ohio University explores the role of the family in Ameri- can political development: as a focus of “A provocative, diverse, and political struggle, a place where policy richly researched set of happens, a means of distributing govern- readings on the family. mental goods, and a way of relating The chapters explore roles individuals to the state and to each other that policymakers—presi- in legal terms. dential administrations, While the authors gathered here executive agencies, Con- examine important policy questions that gress, and the courts—have relate to the family—including immigra- had in defining, constitut- tion, welfare, citizenship, partisanship, and ideology—they pay particular ing, and prioritizing families attention to changes in family structures from antebellum Louisiana and responsibilities in light of the rise of to the present.” neoliberalism. Illustrated with case Bartholomew Sparrow, professor studies—some contemporary, some of government, University of historical—their essays provide individual Texas at Austin takes on different links between family and politics, creating a nuanced conversa- tion on this complex topic. The result is a MAY multifaceted view of the family’s place in 288 pages, 2 illustrations, the development of American political 4 tables, 6 x 9 institutions and a unique understanding Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2922-0, $65.00(s) of the work that family does to structure Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2923-7, $29.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2924-4, $29.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 17 NEW BOOKS POLITICAL SCIENCE The Pro-Life Pregnancy Help Movement Serving Women or Saving Babies? Laura S. Hussey

“Professor Hussey provides a here is more to the pro-life move- novel, in-depth account of ment than campaigning against the pregnancy help move- Tabortion. That, at least, is the logic ment that both confirms and behind a large and growing network of refutes much of the existing pro-life pregnancy centers offering “help” to pregnant women. As these centers face literature and conventional increasing scrutiny, this book offers the wisdom about this feminized first social-scientific study of the pro-life branch of the pro-life pregnancy help movement. movement. Drawing from The work being performed at pro-life an unmatched wealth of pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and original data, she takes a other charitable agencies is, Laura S. balanced approach to a Hussey suggests, distinguished by several controversial topic.” strategic features: it is directed at non- Alesha E. Doan, author of state targets, operates in largely privatized Opposition and Intimidation: The venues, employs service provision as its Abortion Wars and Strategies primary tactic, and aims to address causes of Political Harassment and popularly associated with its counter- coauthor of Abortion Regret: movement such as women’s (including The New Attack on Reproductive Freedom poor women’s) well-being and empower- ment. The motives and nature of the action and the pro-life movement, and for “Hussey’s thorough examina- services such pregnancy centers deliver the future of the American abortion have become the subjects of competing conflict. tion of the history, people, political narratives—but, until now, very strategies, and impacts of little empirical research. A rich, mixed- Laura S. Hussey is associate professor of the pregnancy help move- method study including data from two political science and director of the ment brings much-needed original national surveys and extensive Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program insight to the scholarship of interviews, Hussey’s book adjudicates at the University of Maryland, Baltimore service politics and the these opposing views even as it provides a County. Her extensive work on social pro-life movement.” measured look at the identity, work, movements, public policy, and politics has Katrina Kimport, research history, and impact of pro-life pregnancy appeared in many publications, including sociologist, Advancing New centers and related service providers as American Politics Research, Politics & Standards in Reproductive well as their relations with the larger Policy, Political Research Quarterly, and Health, University of California, American antiabortion movement. Social Science Quarterly. San Francisco To what extent is pro-life pregnancy help work primarily geared to serving FEBRUARY women versus “saving babies”? Pursued 328 pages, 17 figures, 13 tables, 6 x 9 in these pages, the answer has broad Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2900-8, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2901-5, $34.95 implications for the wider study of social

18 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu POLITICAL SCIENCE | CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES NEW BOOKS Why Associations Matter The Case for First Amendment Pluralism Luke C. Sheahan

irst Amendment rights are hailed as in the Court’s theoretical framework: “Blending brilliant sociological the hallmark of the US constitutional an understanding of the state and the and philosophical insights Fsystem, protecting religious liberty, individual as the two analytically exclu- with a profound rendering of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, sive units of constitutional analysis. Why how the First Amendment is and freedom of association. But among Associations Matter traces this dichotomy supposed to protect freedom these rights, freedom of association holds through Supreme Court jurisprudence of association, this book by a tenuous position, as demonstrated in culminating in Martinez, revealing a Luke C. Sheahan is truly the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in pattern of free association treated only as magnificent. It should be on Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, which an individual right of expressive associa- the shelf and in the mind of upheld a public university’s policy tion derived from the Speech Clause requiring groups seeking official recogni- alone. Sheahan then draws on the every scholar, journalist, tion to accept all students regardless of political sociology of Robert Nisbet to judge, religious leader, their status or beliefs. This demotion of make a case for recognizing the social policymaker, and citizen who freedom of association has broad ramifica- importance of associations and institu- wishes to understand, save, tions for the constitutional status of tions that cannot be reduced to their support, and strengthen voluntary associations in civil society, individual members or subsumed into America’s most vital civil Luke C. Sheahan suggests. His book offers the state for purposes of constitutional society institutions.” a cogent explanation of how this came analysis. John J. DiIulio, Jr., professor, about, why it matters, and what might be Translating the sociological qualities of University of Pennsylvania, and done about it. associations into jurisprudential categories, founding director, White House Sheahan’s argument centers upon what Why Associations Matter provides practical Office of Faith-Based and he calls the “First Amendment Dichotomy” advice for protecting freedom of associa- Community Initiatives tion through the judiciary and the legislature—and guaranteeing this “Sheahan reminds us that fundamental right its proper place in diverse and distinctive American society. associations help to con- strain government overreach Luke C. Sheahan is assistant professor in and create space for people, the Department of Political Science at who are fundamentally Duquesne University and a nonresident communal beings, to scholar in the Program for Research on flourish.” Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania. Richard W. Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

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www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 19 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | US POLITICS Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism Michael C. Steiner

“Researchers and lay readers he Harvard-educated, Jewish The Midwest in the first decades of the interested in American American philosopher Horace Meyer twentieth century was a youthful region intellectual history, American TKallen (1882–1974) is commonly experiencing massive immigration and cultural history, and the credited with the concept of cultural the xenophobic fervor of approaching war. history of the American pluralism, which envisioned immigrant In this milieu Steiner locates a pervasive and minority groups cultivating their pluralist zeitgeist rife with urban- and Jewish experience will find distinctive social worlds and interacting rural-based intellectuals and public figures no better guide to American to create an inclusive, ever-changing true deeply critical of both the all-absorbing society’s pluralist tradition American culture. Though living and melting pot ideology and white racist and Kallen’s outsized teaching in Madison, Wisconsin, when he Anglo-Saxon exclusionism. Early propo- influence on the American developed this influential theory, Kallen’s nents of diversity who interacted with scene.” seven-year sojourn in the Midwest Kallen to forge a pluralist sensibility and Mark Raider, professor of (1911–1918) rarely figures in accounts of ideology as the Midwest was becoming the modern Jewish history, University the theory’s origins. And yet, Michael C. nation’s dominant region included public of Cincinnati Steiner suggests, the Midwest, far from figures Hamlin Garland, Frederick Jackson being a mere interruption in Kallen’s Turner, and Jane Addams; African American “Richly evoking early thought, was in fact the essential catalyst activists Reverdy Ransom and Ida B. Wells; twentieth-century culture for the theory of cultural pluralism, a Norwegian American writers Ole E. Rølvaag wars pitting nativists/white concept that continues to shape public and Waldemar Ager; and intellectuals nationalists against non- debate a century later. Randolph Bourne and John Dewey. Anglo immigrants and Tracing how Kallen’s interaction with people of color, Michael C. these figures and his regional experience Steiner’s eloquent, erudite expanded his vision and added the final study examines and situates touch and crucial spatial dimension to his theory, Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland Kallen’s key role.” enhances our understanding of cultural James P. Leary, Center for the pluralism. The book has direct bearing on Study of Upper Midwestern the present, as once again denunciation of Cultures, University of Wisconsin– Madison diversity and mass migration challenge the tenets and advocates of pluralism.

Michael C. Steiner is professor emeritus of American studies at California State University, Fullerton. He is editor most recently of Regionalists on the Left: Radical Voices from the American West and coeditor JUNE of, among other books, Many Wests: Place, 240 pages, 18 illustrations, 6 x 9 Culture, and Regional Identity, also from Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2954-1, $37.50(s) Kansas. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2955-8, $37.50

20 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS The Conservative Heartland A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest Edited by Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock

n the wake of the 2016 presidential status as the last real competitive battle- “Essential reading for anyone election there was widespread shock ground in presidential elections. interested in how and why Ithat the Midwest, the Democrats’ the Midwest has become so-called blue wall, had been so effectively Jon K. Lauck is the founding president America’s most contested breached by Donald Trump. But the blue of the Midwestern History Association, political battleground. wall, as The Conservative Heartland makes editor in chief of the Middle West Review, Anchored by Lauck and clear, was never quite as secure as so and adjunct professor of political science Stock’s superb introductory many observers assumed. A deep look at at the University of South Dakota. essay, a talented group of the Midwest’s history of conservative politics, this timely volume reveals how Catherine McNicol Stock is the Barbara historians provide a tour conservative victories in state houses, Zaccheo Kohn ’72 Professor of History at d’horizon of the Midwest’s legislatures, and national elections in the Connecticut College. economic and cultural early twenty-first century, far from fracture lines, revealing coming out of nowhere, in fact had how the region became the extensive roots across decades of political proving ground for an organization in the region. enduring strain of conserva- Focusing on nine states, from Iowa tive politics.” and the Dakotas to Indiana and Ohio, the David Farber, Roy A. Roberts essays in this collection detail the rise of Distinguished Professor, midwestern conservatism after World University of Kansas, and author War II—a trend that coincided with the of The Rise and Fall of Modern transformation of the prewar Republican American Conservatism Party into the New Right. This transfor- mation, the authors contend, involved the “This timely book provides a Midwest and the Sun Belt states. Through trove of great information the lenses of race, class, gender, and for people who want to sexuality, their essays explore the develop- understand the history and ment of midwestern conservative politics politics of the Midwest.” in light of deindustrialization, environ- George Hawley, author of mentalism, second-wave feminism, mass Right-Wing Critics of American incarceration, privatization, and debates Conservatism over same-sex marriage and abortion, among other issues. Together these essays map the region’s complex patchwork of viable rural and urban areas, variously subject to a wide array of conflicting MAY 392 pages, 7 photographs, 1 map, interests and concerns; the perspective 1 1 11 figures, 9 tables, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 they provide, at once broad and in-depth, Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2930-5, $65.00(s) offers unique historical insight into the Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2931-2, $29.95(s) Midwest’s political complexity—and its Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2932-9, $29.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 21 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | US POLITICS Beyond Donkeys and Elephants Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics Edited by Richard Davis

“Richard Davis makes a onfronted with two historically significant contribution to unpopular presidential candidates, the field with a much-needed Cthe American electorate in 2016 book-length treatment of delivered a shock to the political system. minor parties in the United Less noted amid the drama of Donald Trump’s victory was the substantial share States. In addition, this of the vote won by minor parties and book makes a major contri- independent candidates—one of whom, bution by examining the Libertarian Gary Johnson, put in the best role of third parties in state third-party performance since Ross Perot’s party politics.” 1996 Reform Party bid. Even more John K. White, author of surprising, at the state-level minor-party Barack Obama’s America: How candidates made greater inroads, in some New Conceptions of Race, Family, states combining to win over 10 percent and Religion Ended the Reagan Era and coauthor of Party On! of the vote. At a time of increasing Political Parties from Hamilton dissatisfaction with a two-party system, and Jefferson to Trump this book provides a much-needed look at the current political party alternatives in “Beyond Donkeys and the United States. In Beyond Donkeys and Elephants casts a bright Elephants, the chapter authors survey the light on American politics present political landscape but also delve gence of minor parties in historical ‘beyond’ the two major into the history of third parties and context, examining the larger political consider their likely directions and forces at play. With its case studies past parties. Our understanding prospects looking forward. and present, its insights into the forma- of the two-party landscape The most comprehensive account ever tion and nature of minor parties, and its is incomplete without this written of contemporary minor political in-depth analysis of why and when such picture of the rest of the parties in the United States, Beyond parties emerge, this book affords readers system.” Donkeys and Elephants covers parties at across the political spectrum a unique Hans Noel, author of Political the national, regional, and state levels. It opportunity to understand and evaluate Ideologies and Political Parties discusses the well-known alternatives— alternatives as the two-party system in America including the Green, Constitution, and undergoes ever greater strains in the Libertarian Parties—as well as niche coming years. APRIL state-level parties such as the Mountain 288 pages, 13 figures, 15 tables, Party in West Virginia, the Vermont Richard Davis is professor of political 1 map, 6 x 9 Progressive Party, the Moderate Party of science at Brigham Young University and Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2927-5, $55.00(s) Rhode Island, and the United Utah Party. chair of the United Utah Party. Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2928-2, $24.95(s) This book also places the current resur- Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2929-9, $24.95

22 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS | AMERICAN STUDIES NEW BOOKS The Moderate Imagination The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism Yoav Fromer

n the aftermath of Donald Trump’s Several generations of Americans since “Yoav Fromer’s The Moderate victory in 2016, Americans finally the 1960s have increasingly felt “left Imagination delivers an Ifaced a perplexing political reality: behind.” In Updike’s early work, Fromer important new understanding Democrats, purported champions of finds a fictional map of the failures of of Updike’s political instincts working people since the New Deal, had liberalism that might explain these griev- and vision. This fuller and ances. also taps lost the white working-class voters of The Moderate Imagination more rounded picture of Middle America. For answers about how previously unknown archival materials Updike’s literary intentions this could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an and unread works from Updike’s college and his social and political unlikely source: the fiction of John years at Harvard to offer a clearer view of insights will benefit even Updike. Though commonly viewed as an the author’s acute political thought and East Coast chronicler of suburban angst, ideas. Updike’s prescient literary imagina- the experts.” the gifted writer (in fact a native of the tion, Fromer shows, sensed the disap- Cal Jillson, author of The quintessential Rust Belt state, Pennsylvania) pointments and alienation of rural white American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction was also an ardent man of ideas, political working- and middle-class Americans ideas—whose fiction, Fromer tells us, decades before conservatives sought to should be read not merely as a reflection exploit them. In his writing, he traced “Fromer’s book makes a of the postwar era but rather as a critical liberalism’s historic decline to its own strong case for a revision of investigation into the liberal culture that philosophical contradictions rather than US political development as helped define it. to only commonly cited external circum- it has often been portrayed stances like the Vietnam War, racial strife, over the last five decades. economic recession, and conservative The book successfully backlash. juxtaposes political events A subtle reinterpretation of John happening with Updike’s Updike’s legacy, Fromer’s work compli- literary work and his cates and enriches our understanding relationships with political of one of the twentieth century’s great people.” American writers—even as the book deftly demonstrates what literature can Leah A. Murray, PhD, Brady Presidential Distinguished teach us about politics and history. Professor, Political Science and Philosophy, Weber State Yoav Fromer is director of the Center for University the Study of the United States in partner- ship with the Fulbright Program and a fellow in the School of Government at Tel Aviv University. He is a senior editor and columnist at Yedioth Ahronoth, and his writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, JUNE 288 pages, 6 x 9 Newsweek, New Republic, and Tablet. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2952-7, $39.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2953-4, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 23 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | PRESIDENCY STUDIES | CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror Edited by Stewart L. Winger and Jonathan W. White

“These excellent researchers by the War on Terror; more than that, the are also wonderful storytellers, authors of Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered and this book will provide contend, the case affords an opportunity readers with both an to reevaluate the history of wartime civil informative re-examination liberties from the Civil War era to our own. of a watershed (and still After the Civil War, critics of Recon- struction pointed to Milligan as an ongoing) event in American example of the Republican Party’s abuse history and an enjoyable of federal power. However, the authors of read.” this volume argue that this distorts the Howard Ball, author of nineteenth-century understanding of the Prosecuting War Crimes and Bill of Rights, neglects international law Genocide: The Twentieth-Century entirely, and, equally striking, ignores the Experience and Murder in Mississippi: United States v. experience of African Americans. In Price and the Struggle for Civil reviving Milligan, the Supreme Court has Rights implicitly cast Reconstruction as a “war on terror” in which terrorist insurgencies “This timely and important threatened and eventually halted the book makes suggestive and assertion of black freedom by the Repub- weighty insights on how lican Party, the Union Army, and African those presidential and t the very end of the Civil War a Americans themselves. Returning African judicial decisions of the military court convicted Lambdin P. Americans to the center of the story, and recognizing that Lincoln and Republicans Civil War/Reconstruction era AMilligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrec- were often forced to restrict white civil resonate in the current tion and sentenced them to hang. On liberties in order to establish black civil public policy debates on the appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme rights and liberties, Ex Parte Milligan problem of security in an Court sided with the conspirators, ruling Reconsidered suggests an entirely different age of stateless wars and that it was unconstitutional to try account of wartime civil liberties, one acts of terror.” American citizens in military tribunals with profound implications for US racial Thomas C. Mackey, professor of when civilian courts were open and history and constitutional law in today’s history, University of Louisville functioning—as they were in Indiana. War on Terror. Far from being a relic of the Civil War, the landmark 1866 decision has surprising Stewart L. Winger is associate professor relevance in our day, as this volume of history at Illinois State University. MAY makes clear. Cited in four Supreme Court 392 pages, 13 photographs, 1 1 Jonathan W. White is associate professor 13 figures, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 decisions arising from the wars in Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2936-7, $45.00(s) Afghanistan and Iraq, Ex parte Milligan of American studies at Christopher Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2937-4, $45.00 speaks to constitutional questions raised Newport University.

24 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | PRESIDENCY STUDIES NEW BOOKS Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship Edited by Michael P. Zuckert

ur ideas of statesmanship are One of Lincoln’s abiding themes was “These insightful essays fraught with seeming contradic- foreshadowed in his Lyceum Address, restore both the notion of Otions: The democratic statesman is delivered when he was not yet thirty: the democratic statesmanship true to the people’s wishes and views— call for the prevalence of a sort of public to its proper place and but also capable of standing against opinion that he characterized as a Lincoln’s status as a popular opinion when necessary. The political religion. As it relates to demo- statesman. This collection is statesman rises above conflicts and seeks cratic statesmanship, what does Lincoln’s a must-read for students of compromise between parties—but also political religion have to do with religion American political thought.” stands firmly for what is right. Abraham per se? How, in his role as statesman and a Lincoln, perhaps more than any other master of democratic speech, did Lincoln Stephen F. Knott, author of The Lost Soul of the American political figure in US history, affords us an handle the two major issues he faced and Presidency: The Decline into opportunity to evaluate the philosophical, a political leader: slavery and the war? In Demagoguery and the Prospects political, and practical implications of attempting to meet the demand that he for Renewal these paradoxical propositions. Asking use acceptable means to achieve his ends, whether and how Lincoln acted in a did Lincoln—can any statesman—keep “Michael Zuckert and his statesmanly manner at critical moments, his hands clean? Are there inevitable fellow contributors have the authors of this volume aim to clarify transgressions that a statesman must performed a vital service; what precisely statesmanship might be; commit? These are among the topics the Lincoln and Democratic their work illuminates important themes authors take on as they consider Lincoln’s Statesmanship is an impres- and events in Lincoln’s career even as it democratic and rhetorical statesmanship, broadens and sharpens our understanding on occasion drawing comparisons with sive contribution to Lincoln of the general nature of statesmanship. his contemporaries Henry Clay and studies and American Stephen Douglas or even such a distant political history generally.” forerunner as Pericles. Brian R. Dirck, author of Finally, framing statesmanship in Abraham Lincoln and White terms of three factors—knowledge of the America political good of a community, circum- stance, and the best possible action in light of these two—this volume renders a nuanced, deeply informed judgment on what distinguishes Lincoln as a statesman and what distinguishes a statesman from a (mere) politician.

Michael P. Zuckert is Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the Univer- sity of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books including Natural Rights MAY and the New Republicanism, The Natural 312 pages, 2 tables, 6 x 9 Constitutional Thinking Rights Republic, and Launching Liberalism: Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2938-1, $50.00(s) On Lockean Political Philosophy (Kansas). Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2939-8, $50.00

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 25 NEW IN PAPERBACK George Henry Thomas As True as Steel Brian Steel Wills

“Reading Wills’s definitive biography of the “Wills has carefully reconstructed Thomas’s life, blue Virginian makes it clear why Thomas is developed fully his personality, and answered now ranked among the pantheon of Civil War his critics with a study as exacting as Thomas generals.”—Civil War Round Table of the himself. His work will stand as the basic District of Columbia source on the ‘Rock of Chickamauga’ for years to come.”—James I. Robertson, Jr., author of “George Henry Thomas is not as famous today Stonewall Jackson as other Union army generals such as Sherman and Grant . . . Wills makes a strong case that Brian Steel Wills is professor of history and the so-called Rock of Chickamauga should be. director of the Center for the Study of the A smooth style and quick pace will make this Civil War Era at Kennesaw State University. book attractive to readers interested in Civil His many books include The Confederacy’s War history, while the meticulous research Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forrest will appeal to academics.”—Library Journal and Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War, both from Kansas. “At long last, here is the definitive biography of George Henry Thomas. . . . An exciting, AVAILABLE | US HISTORY | CIVIL WAR 1 1 stirring, splendid achievement.”—Emory M. 600 pages, 17 photographs, 19 maps, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 Thomas, author of Robert E. Lee Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2899-5, $32.50(s)

The Political Thought of the Civil War Edited by Alan Levine, Thomas W. Merrill, and James R. Stoner, Jr.

“In addition to showcasing fine scholarship, of the Constitution to function in a polarized the essays show how that era’s arguments over political community and produce justice in a the core principles of the American political multiracial society. These essays have much to tradition—natural rights, federalism, consti- teach us not only about the Civil War era but tutionalism, justice, and equality—remain also about our present predicaments.” relevant today and should inform current —Daniel Farber, author of Lincoln’s Constitution political debates. . . . Anyone who reads this Alan Levine is associate professor of govern- volume will appreciate again the moral con- ment and founding director of the Political viction and integrity required to preserve the Theory Institute in the School of Public Affairs timeless principles of the Founding during the at American University. Civil War era.”—Law and Liberty Thomas W. Merrill is associate professor of “An example of doing ‘political theory’ at a government and director of special programs truly excellent level.”—Civil War Book Review of the Political Theory Institute in the School “This is an engaging work that illuminates the of Public Affairs at American University. influences of our history on how we imple- James R. Stoner, Jr., is Hermann Moyse Jr. ment our ideas and engage the process of Professor and director of the Eric Voegelin democracy. Highly recommended.”—Choice Institute in the Department of Political Science “The Civil War raised fundamental issues at Louisiana State University. about our constitutional order, issues that still AVAILABLE | POLITICAL SCIENCE | US HISTORY resonate today. Levine, Merrill, and Stoner 1 1 432 pages, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to American Political Thought revisit the thought of the Civil War era and Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2911-4, $29.95(s) address broader issues, including the ability

26 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu NEW IN PAPERBACK American Airpower Strategy in World War II Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil Conrad C. Crane

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Children of the Silent Majority Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968–1980 Seth Blumenthal

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