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new Titles 21 Literature in Translation: Teaching Issues and Reading Practices A Note from the Director 1 1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Maier & Kenney Edwards Kennedy 22 The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Books are hindrances to persisting 2 WIXY 1260: Pixies, Six-packs, and Burns and the Landscape of Race in stupidity.—Spanish Proverb Supermen Olszewski & Berg Antebellum America Barker 3 Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal 23 Interpreting American History: For the second year running we are Pools FitzSimmons & Meszaros The Age of Andrew Jackson pleased to announce an entire year’s McKnight & Humphreys new books in a single catalog. 4 Out and About with Winsor French Wood 24 Arguing Americanism: Pro-Franco As the five-year sesquicentennial Lobbyists, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy, anniversary of the Civil War begins, 5 Queen Victoria’s Stalker: The Strange and the Spanish Civil War Chapman we feature a number of new studies Case of the Boy Jones Bondeson 25 Safe for Decolonization: The of America’s greatest conflict, and 6 Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and Eisenhower Administration, Britain, we are delighted to introduce the Crime Spree That Gripped a and Singapore Long historian Lesley Gordon as the new Nation Hollock 26 Seeing Drugs: Modernization, editor of Civil War History, the 7 Murder and Martial Justice: Spying Counterinsurgency, and U.S. field’s premier journal, now in its and Retribution in World War II Narcotics Control in the Third World, sixth decade. We offer inaugural America Adams 1969–1976 Weimer volumes in two new series— 8 The Christmas Murders Goodman 27 Trilateralism and Beyond: Great Interpreting American History 8 The Supernatural Murders Power Politics and the Korean and American Abolitionism and Goodman Security Dilemma during and after Antislavery—and a variety of titles 9 The Collected Stories of Ray the Cold War Wampler in established series: New Studies Bradbury: A Critical Edition, 28 A Cleveland Jewish Reader in U.S. Foreign Relations, Sacred Volume 1, 1938–1943 Touponce & Eller Rubinstein, Grabowski, Wertheim & Landmarks, Voices of Diversity, 10 Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Bennett Translation Studies, True Crime Rover, Hollywood Brawler 29 An Integrated Boyhood: Coming of History, and the Wick Poetry Series. Bauer & Dawidziak Age in White Cleveland Richards Literary highlights include the first 11 “Feel the Bonds That Draw”: Images 30 Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue: volume of The Collected Stories of the Civil War at the Western Architecture and Community Leedy of Ray Bradbury and an engaging Reserve Historical Society Dee 31 A Higher Contemplation: Sacred biography of vagabond novelist Jim 12 Shadows of Antietam Kalasky Meaning in the Christian Art of the Tully with a foreword by Ken Burns. 13 “They Have Left Us Here to Die”: The Middle Ages Fliegel From true crime to literature, Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. 32 Dedication: The Work of regional studies to history, and Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry William P. Ginther, Ecclesiastical poetry to popular culture, our 2011 Robins Architect Valleriano list has something to entice anyone 14 The Story of a Thousand Tourgée 33 The Local World Rosenthal who loves good books. 15 Army Raiders: The Special Activities 34 Tethering World Rambo Group in Korea Kiper 34 The Lonely-wilds Breese 16 Slings and Slingstones: The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania and 35 New in Paper Will Underwood the Americas York & York 35 Revised and Expanded 17 Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien Flieger 36 Recent Releases 18 Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: 44 Ohio History Journal Twenty-five Years of Criticism del Gizzo & Svoboda 45 Civil War History Journal 19 Hemingway, Race, and Art: 46 Order Form Bloodlines and the Colorline Dudley 47 Sales Information IBC Sales Representatives 20 Darling Ro and the Benét The Kent State University Press is a Women Hively proud member of the Association of American University Presses. 1950s radio in color The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards Christopher Kennedy Foreword by Terry Stewart

A remarkable collection of photographs by one of rock’s early champions

Between 1955 and 1960, popular Cleveland deejay Tommy Edwards photographed the parade of performers who passed through the WERE-AM radio studio for on-air interviews, shooting more than 1,700 Ektachrome slides. Following his death in 1981, most of the collection vanished and was presumed lost. The few images that remained were often reprinted and rarely credited to Edwards, labeled “photographer unknown.” Until now. Discovered by musician Chris Kennedy in 2006, Tommy Edwards’s candid photographs capture the birth of rock ’n’ roll at its flashpoint: Elvis Presley while he was still dangerous; a raw and incomplete Chuck Berry before his star ascended; and some beady-eyed, high-voiced kid named Roy Orbison. It wasn’t just the architects of rock music whom Edwards had in his viewfinder. There were also pop and country music’s biggest stars, mysterious, unknown hopefuls, and vulnerable, deglamourized Hollywood celebrities. Edwards’s passion for photography immortalized hundreds of pioneers of rock ’n’ roll and pop culture in the radio studio, a setting that was often unseen. His photos offer a rare look behind a closed door. In 2009, Kennedy located the only surviving copy of the “T.E. News- letter” collection, Tommy Edwards’s self-published weekly two-page recap of Cleveland radio and record news for music business insiders, spanning from 1953 through 1960. The wealth of information and dates contained in the newsletters are the photo collection’s indispensable companion piece, and Edwards’s anecdotal quips are interspersed throughout the text of the book. 1950s Radio in Color gives Tommy Edwards his due recognition as the deejay responsible for perhaps the most important photographic and written documentation of twentieth-century music ever produced. Featuring over 200 color photographs, this book will transport readers Music/Regional History back in time, allowing them to step into Edwards’s shoes for a moment March and to feel the wonder and excitement he must have felt every day while Cloth $49.00t isbn 978-1-60635-072-0 witnessing a cultural revolution. c. 264 pp., 8½ x 11 illustrations, index Christopher Kennedy is a passionate music fan and an accomplished songwriter and musician, having released five albums with the band Ruth Ruth. He discovered this collection during his research into the long-lost rock ’n’ roll film The Pied Piper of Cleveland, which is rumored to contain some of the earliest footage of Elvis Presley. He is still looking for the film.Terry Stewart is President and CEO of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

call to order 419-281-1802 1 “Through extensive interviews wixy 1260 with insiders, the authors Pixies, Six-packs, and Supermen chronicle WIXY’s relatively brief yet Mike Olszewski and Richard Berg with Carlo Wolff exciting run and how the station came to dominate the airwaves in The story of one of Cleveland’s most popular and influential radio the ’60s and ’70s with a winning stations combination of tastemaking playlists, unforgettable on-air Before FM radio and the commanding album rock stations of the 1970s, personalities, and outlandish pro- there was WIXY 1260, a tiny Northeast Ohio AM radio station that motions. It’s a fun story, recounted became an entertainment powerhouse. Three visionaries assembled a with ample humor.” legendary staff of on-air personalities and, with savvy programming and —John Soeder, Music Critic, groundbreaking promotions, created WIXY 1260—a station that would The Cleveland Plain Dealer become synonymous with 1960s pop culture. A Midwest juggernaut, WIXY aired everything from surf and Motown to country and the British Invasion. Crossing cultural and generational lines in one of the hottest radio markets in the country, it regularly took in more than fifty percent of the Greater Cleveland audience. Black Squirrel Books Bob Weiss, Norman Wain, and Joe Zingale knew the kind of radio September Cleveland wanted to hear. They also knew how to market that sound to Paper $22.95t isbn 978-1-60635-099-7 make it a lifestyle. They bought a small station with a weak signal and c. 160 pp., 6 x 9 renamed it WIXY, and it wasn’t long before their competition fell by the illustrations, biblio., index wayside. Mike Olszewski and Richard Berg spin a lively tale of popular culture that will appeal to everyone from baby boomers to media scholars and cultural historians.

Of Related Interest Mike Olszewski is a veteran radio and television personality, historian, Radio Daze: Stories from and educator. He is best known for his work at WMMS-FM and has writ- the Front in Cleveland’s ten several books concerning the history of Northeast Ohio broadcast- FM Air Wars ing. Along with many regional and national broadcasting awards, Mike Mike Olszewski won a 2009 Emmy for his TV documentary Radio Daze: Cleveland’s FM Paper $29.00t Air Wars. Along with his broadcasting career, he also teaches media and i s b n 978-0-87338-773-6 communication courses at Kent State University, Notre Dame College, and the University of Akron. Mike and his wife, Janice, live in Aurora, Ohio. Richard Berg is a longtime media historian and is recognized as Rock ’n’ Roll and the one of the leading authorities on Northeast Ohio radio. Richard’s first- Cleveland Connection hand knowledge comes from close relationships he has established with Deanna R. Adams some of the biggest names in the industry. He’s currently working on Paper $39.00t extensive projects concerning the history of Akron radio and Cleveland’s i s b n 978-0-87338-691-3 KYW/WKYC-AM. Carlo Wolff, a journalist and pop culture historian living in South Euclid, Ohio, is the author of Cleveland Rock & Roll Memories: True and Tall Tales of the Glory Days, Told by Musicians, DJs, Promoters, and Fans Who Made the Scene in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.

Black Squirrel Books The Black Squirrel Books imprint includes new nonfiction for the general reader as well as reprints of valuable studies of Ohio and its people, including historical writings, literary studies, biographies, and literature.

2 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal pools David S. FitzSimmons Photographs by Gary Meszaros

A fascinating and beautiful guide to Ohio’s extraordinary wetland wildlife

The Buckeye State’s many ponds and vernal pools are popu- lated by a dizzying variety of wildlife. Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal Pools takes a close-up look at unique wetlands—from fascinating fish and amphibians to intriguing insects and birds—and examines pond and vernal pool ecology, Ohio’s geologic history influencing wetland formation, and hydrology and energy cycles. In prose that enlightens and entertains, author David S. FitzSimmons uncovers both the rare and common life-forms found in and around Ohio’s ponds and vernal pools. First he discusses the Buckeye State’s variety of small lakes, covering everything from managed farm ponds to glacially formed basins. He then turns to vernal pools, temporary waters that fill in the late winter or spring and dry up in the summer. He describes specialized amphibian breeding habitats including a vivid account of rainy spring nights when hundreds of mole salamanders slip into the filling waters while equal numbers of wood frogs “clack” loudly in the dark. Accompa- nying these scientifically accurate and poetic descriptions are Gary Meszaros’s extraordinary photographs, including close- ups of multicolored dragonflies, underwater shots of fish, beautiful images of birds, and idyllic vistas of Ohio’s serene ponds and secluded pools. Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal Pools is a wonderful resource Of Related Interest about wetlands and wildlife that will inspire readers to learn about and protect their own natural environments. Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals Carolyn V. Platt with David S. FitzSimmons is a professor of English at Ashland University photography by Gary in Ohio. A freelance writer and photographer, his work has appeared in Meszaros Ohio Magazine, Natural Ohio, Popular Photography & Imaging, Shutter- Cloth $35.00t bug, and other magazines, as well as in numerous newspapers and online i s b n 978-0-87338-585-5 publications. Gary Meszaros, a retired schoolteacher, has been a dedicated nature photographer for more than twenty-five years. His photographs Birds of the Lake Erie have appeared in many publications, including Smithsonian, National Region Wildlife, National Parks Magazine, Natural History, and Timeline. Carolyn V. Platt with photography by Gary Meszaros Ohio History/Natural History Paper $28.00t September i s b n 978-0-87338-690-6 Cloth $48.00t isbn 978-1-60635-081-2 160 pp., 8¼ x 10½ photographs, index

call to order 419-281-1802 3 out and about with winsor french James M. Wood

How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960s

Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues’ homophobia and risking the loss of his job by defending unconventional behavior. He ignored newspaper taboos by publishing the price of bootlegged liquor during Prohi- bition and by writing stories about “sepia” entertainers, Jewish socialites, schoolchildren in wheelchairs, and men who found males more exciting than females. French’s reports of urban nightlife appeared in Parade, a magazine he founded and edited, as well as in two Cleveland newspapers, the News and the Press. His most illuminating observations were items in an about-town column, a metropolitan newspaper format begun in the 1920s to publicize the local affairs of café society. French’s wanderlust, however, led him to extend his geographical boundaries from downtown Cleveland to the “smoke and music” haunts of Havana, Hollywood, Manhattan, Paris, London, and Pago Pago. His sources were crooners, deckhands, fan dancers, hoboes, gangsters, millionaires, redcaps, torch singers, and several of the twentieth century’s most celebrated stage, Biography/Regional History September film, and literary artists, including Noël Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Paper $29.00t Grant, Somerset Maugham, and Cole Porter. isbn 978-1-60635-060-7 The four decades of French’s professional career are often described c. 224 pp., 6 x 9 as an era that forced homosexuals to be sexually vague and anonymous, illustrations, notes, biblio., index especially if they aspired to prominence in their local community. But French’s life and career contradicted that assumption. He never hid his sexuality yet achieved journalistic leadership and unchallenged influence over Cleveland’s social life. Richly illustrated with contemporary news photographs and editorial drawings, Out and About with Winsor French documents the powerful role played by about-town columnists during a raucous episode in the history of American newspapers.

James M. Wood is an award-winning journalist, former about-town columnist for Cleveland Magazine, and author of four books on Cleve- land social history: Halle’s: Memoirs of a Family Department Store, One Hundred Twenty-Five, Helen’s Twentieth Century, and The Tavern.

4 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com queen victoria’s stalker The Strange Case of the Boy Jones Jan Bondeson

The unusual tale of one of history’s earliest celebrity stalkers

Following her coronation in 1838, Britain’s Queen Victoria was a very frightened young woman. She was being relentlessly pursued by a strange teenager, Edward “the Boy” Jones, who had an uncanny ability to sneak into Buckingham Palace without being detected. Once, he entered her bedroom and stole her underwear, and twice he sat on the throne. “If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been,” the Queen wrote in her journal after the Boy Jones had been hauled out from underneath a sofa in her dressing room. As a result of his multiple intrusions into Buckingham Palace, the Boy Jones became a media celebrity. His exploits were the subject of popular verse, songs, and prints and lewd newspaper speculation about what he had really seen in the young Queen’s dressing room. Fearful that he might injure or even assassinate the Queen, or kidnap the Princess Royal, the government of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne wanted to get rid of the Boy Jones at all costs. But “simple trespass,” even into Buckingham Palace itself, was not a criminal offense. However, the government was so fearful of what tales the Boy Jones might tell about the various intimate details he had seen when spying in the Queen’s private rooms that Jones was twice tried in camera and sentenced to three months in prison by the Privy Council. “An enlightening study of the He remains the last person to have been given this dubious honor. phenomenon of celebrity stalking.” Since the Boy Jones kept stalking the Queen, Lord Melbourne’s gov- —Albert Borowitz, author of ernment took the extreme step of kidnapping him on board a ship bound Musical Mysteries: From Mozart to for Brazil. When he returned, he was again kidnapped by government John Lennon and Blood and Ink: An agents and forced to serve as a sailor in the Royal Navy for more than International Guide to Fact-Based five years without charge or trial. Crime Literature Queen Victoria’s Stalker is the first full-length account of the Boy Jones’s persistent stalking of Queen Victoria and the journalism and literature inspired by his intrusions. By comparing this case to other instances of celebrity stalking and discussing various theories of stalking True Crime History Series mentality, Jan Bondeson offers a fresh analysis of this unique and unclas- May sifiable case. Cloth $29.95t isbn 978-1-60635-077-5 Jan Bondeson is the author of several critically acclaimed books, includ- c. 200 pp., 6 x 9 illustrations, index ing Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, The Feejee Mermaid, The Two-Headed USAC Boy, The London Monster, The Great Pretenders, and the best-selling Buried Alive. He teaches at Cardiff University, Wales.

call to order 419-281-1802 5 Born to lose Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation James G. Hollock Foreword by James Jessen Badal

A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America

Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pitts- burgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted. In Born to Lose, author James G. Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors at the age of fourteen to a daring rooftop escape from the Allegheny Workhouse in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, where he was being held on a rape charge, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, to his kidnapping near Cumberland, Maryland, and ultimate murder of Linda Peugeot and her two-year-old daughter Lori in the autumn of 1969. Their bodies have never been found. Although indicted for the Peugeot kidnappings, these charges were later dropped because it was determined his constitutional right to a speedy trial was denied. Hoss was, however, convicted of the murder of Officer Zanella and initially sentenced to death, and that sentence was True Crime History Series subsequently commuted to life in prison. But his killings didn’t end there. May In December 1973, while incarcerated at Western Penitentiary, Hoss con- Paper $34.95t isbn 978-1-60635-097-3 spired with two fellow white inmates in the savage murder of the popular c. 384 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ and well-respected corrections officer Lieutenant Walter Peterson, one of illustrations, notes, biblio., index the first African Americans hired by the Pennsylvania prison system. As a result of this final homicide, Hoss was transferred to an isolation facility in Philadelphia where in 1978 he hanged himself. By consulting previously sealed state and federal archives and inter- viewing sixty individuals who witnessed or had significant knowledge of Hoss’s series of felonies, James G. Hollock vividly re-creates the crimes, police dispatches, and court proceedings in this gripping narrative. He “Hollock’s total command of his poignantly characterizes the players involved, especially those who suf- materials allows him to deftly shift fered either directly or indirectly at the hands of Stanley B. Hoss. the character of his narrative from a documentary-like recounting of James G. Hollock has 30 years of experience with the Pennsylvania the events to a gripping evocation Department of Corrections, primarily at Western Penitentiary in Pitts- of suspense worthy of a first-rate burgh. James Jessen Badal is the author of In the Wake of the Butcher: novel.” Cleveland’s Torso Murders, Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of —from the Foreword Beverly Potts, and Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland’s Mad Butcher, all published by The Kent State University Press.

6 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com murder and martial justice Spying and Retribution in World War II America Meredith Lentz Adams

A remarkable story of how the U.S. military tortured German POWs into confessing their guilt

During World War II, the United States maintained two secret interrogation camps in violation of the Geneva Convention—one just south of Washington, D.C., and the other near San Francisco. German POWs who passed through these camps briefed their fellow prisoners, warning them of turncoats who were helping the enemy—the United States— pry secrets from them. One of these turncoats, Werner Drechsler, was betrayed and murdered by those he spied on. U.S. military authorities reacted harshly to Drechsler’s death, even though he was not the first captive to be assassinated by his fellow POWs. How had military intelligence been compromised? Were fanatical Nazis terrorizing their countrymen on American soil? Would Hitler take reprisals against the GIs he held if the United States did not protect the German POWs from violence and death while confined at the interrogation camps? At one of the secret camps, U.S. officials forced Drechsler’s seven murderers to confess. The next problem faced by authorities was how to court-martial them when their confessions were legally invalid. True Crime History Their secret trial was stage-managed to deliver death sentences while May apparently complying with U.S. and international law. Cloth $45.00t isbn 978-1-60635-075-1 This presented U.S. authorities with further problems. The Geneva c. 288 pp., 6 x 9 Convention entitled the prisoners’ governments to the full facts about notes, biblio., index their crimes, trials, and sentencing. Despite escalating German com- plaints, the War Department adopted a policy of giving as little information as possible about any of the several POW murder trials in order to avoid releasing inconvenient facts about the Drechsler case. Unsurpris- “An expert dissection of the crime, its witnesses, and Washington’s shifting ingly, the Reich began sentencing GIs to death. Gambling with American goals. Murder and Martial Justice is lives, the War Department stalled every German attempt to trade these an engaging and detailed murder men for the convicted German murderers until the war ended. Every mystery, based on a solid examina- American was saved; every German but one was hanged. tion of the various contradictions and The Drechsler case foreshadows current controversies: creative exasperating bureaucratic villains.” circumvention of the Geneva Convention, secret interrogation centers, —Arnold Krammer, author of Nazi torture, and the consequent problem of how to provide a fair trial to Prisoners of War in America and Undue prisoners coerced into self-incrimination. Author Meredith Lentz Adams Process: The Untold Story of America’s sees a familiar pattern of cover-ups, leading to difficulties with public and German Alien Internees international relations. In contrast to recent policies, she points out how leaders during World War II felt constrained by their respect for Geneva and by fear of retribution against their own soldiers. Murder and Martial Justice is a fascinating and provocative book that will appeal to those with an interest in World War II, POWs, international law, foreign policy, and true crime history.

Meredith Lentz Adams, professor emeritus of history at Missouri State University, taught German and Russian history and presented graduate seminars about the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials for 37 years. She has presented papers at many local, national, and international conferences until retirement enabled her to write this book.

call to order 419-281-1802 7 the Christmas murders The Supernatural Murders Edited by Jonathan Goodman Edited by Jonathan Goodman With a new Preface by Albert Borowitz With a new Preface by Albert Borowitz

A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime Sure to capture the imagination of devotees of true crime and the occult Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associ- This anthology of thirteen ated with fiction—that all took place during the true crime stories includes festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night the mysterious slaying of between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly Charles Walton, who was tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club found slashed and pierced in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux to death in an area notori- provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting ous for its associations with cyanide in a gift-wrapped bottle of Bromo Seltzer) to black magic; the murder of an apartment in Glasgow (home of a wealthy Scots- Eric Tombe, whose body woman whose demise seemed to have been satis- was located because of a factorily explained by local constables, until Arthur recurring dream in which Conan Doyle assumed the role of Sherlock Holmes) his mother saw Eric down a and from a builder’s workshop in North London (site well; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, in the of a murder committed by a man called Furnace, who early nineteenth century by the nocturnal appearance suited his criminal action to his name) to the elegant of a “ghost”; the Salem witchcraft trials; the murder dwelling of a ménage à trois near the Thames (scene of Rasputin, who was believed by some in Russia to of a puzzling poisoning that, years later, Raymond be a miracle worker and by others to be a dangerous Chandler tried, unofficially, to solve). charlatan; a Scottish tale in which evidence given by In The Christmas Murders, Jonathan Goodman the ghost of the victim was allowed at the murderer’s has collected stories as fascinating and compulsively trial; and the bizarre goings-on at 112 Ocean Avenue, readable as one would expect from a writer described Amityville, New York, where Ronnie DeFeo Jr. by Jacques Barzun as “the murdered his entire family—the new occupants were greatest living master of subjected to all manner of sinister events, including true-crime literature” and by the presence of poltergeists, or were they? Julian Symons as “the premier investigator of crimes past.” True Crime History May Paper $18.95t True Crime History isbn 978-1-60635-083-6 May c. 206 pp., 5½ x 8½ Paper $19.95t illustrations isbn 978-1-60635-082-9 c. 224 pp., 5½ x 8½ illustrations

Jonathan Goodman, considered to have been Britain’s leading crime historian, died in January 2008. After service in the RAF, he began his career in the theater, working first as a stage manager and then as a producer. While with the theater in Liverpool, Goodman, who had already written a crime novel and the entertaining Bloody Versicles (reprinted in the United States by The Kent State University Press, 1993), an anthology of rhymes in crime, researched the celebrated case of William Wallace, who was convicted in 1931 of the murder of his wife Julia. The Killing of Julia Wallace (1969) was a great success, and Goodman’s career took off. The Kent State University Press has published Goodman’s The Passing of Starr Faithfull (1996), Tracks to Murder (2005), and Murder on Several Occasions (2007).

8 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com the collected stories of ray “Beyond Ernest Hemingway, Ray bradbury: a critical edition Bradbury has influenced more writers than anyone else in the twentieth Volume 1, 1938–1943 century. Practically everyone has read Edited by William F. Touponce and Jonathan R. Eller and loved his remarkable works.” William F. Touponce, General Editor —William F. Nolan, coauthor of Logan’s Run Inaugurating a critical edition of one of America’s most popular “Ray Bradbury’s work makes the spirit storytellers sing . . . an undeniable medicine for melancholy which anyone who is ‘in’ In the past, collections of Bradbury’s works have juxtaposed stories with on its magical properties has been no indication as to the different time periods in which they were written. self-administering since they first Even the mid- and late-career collections that Bradbury himself com- encountered it, be that exposure to a piled contained stories that were written much earlier—a situation that novel or one of the hundreds of short has given rise to misconceptions about the origins of the stories them- stories with which he has justifiably made his reputation. Truly, those who selves. In this new edition, editors William F. Touponce and Jonathan R. have grown tired of Ray Bradbury’s Eller present for the first time the stories of Ray Bradbury in the order in gentle eloquence—by turns chilling which they were written. Moreover, they use texts that reflect Bradbury’s and uplifting—have grown tired earliest settled intention for each tale. By examining his relationships of the lyricism of language and the with his agent, editor, and publisher, Touponce and Eller’s textual com- wonder of words.” mentaries document the transformation of the stories—and Bradbury’s —Peter Crowther, Editor, creative understanding of genre fiction—from their original forms to the PostScripts (UK) versions known and loved today. Volume 1 covers the years 1938 to 1943 and contains thirteen stories “The early stories of Ray Bradbury that have never appeared in a Bradbury collection. For those that were are among my very favorites. Highly colored—frightening and exalting at previously published, the original serial forms recovered in this volume once—these stories helped launch differ in significant ways from the versions that Bradbury popularized the young Ray Bradbury, over the over the ensuing years. By documenting the ways the stories evolved next ten years, into international over time, Touponce and Eller unveil significant new information about stardom.” Bradbury’s development as a master of short fiction. —Greg Bear, Hugo and Nebula Each volume in the proposed three-volume edition includes a general Award–winning author of introduction, chronology, summary of unpublished stories, textual Blood Music and The Forge of God commentary for each story, textual apparatus, and chronological catalog. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury is edited to the highest scholarly “Ray Bradbury occupies a place all his own in the history of the fantastic, in standards by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies and bears the Modern his approach to life itself—passion- Language Association’s seal of approval for scholarly editions. ate, vital, endlessly involved. All that can be felt in these early stories, an General editor William F. Touponce is professor of English and adjunct engagement with life and a promise professor of American studies at the Institute for American Thought at of things to come from a writer whose Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is the coauthor, life is as much a creation as the fiction with Jonathan R. Eller, of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (The Kent itself.” —James Gunn, Damon Knight State University Press, 2004) and editor of The New Ray Bradbury Review, Memorial Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America an annual review of the life and works of Ray Bradbury published by The Kent State University Press. Jonathan R. Eller is professor of English and senior textual editor for the Institute for American Thought. He is the Literature and Literary cofounder of the Institute’s Center for Ray Bradbury Studies and is tex- Criticism tual editor for the Writings of Charles S. Peirce and The Works of George Now Available Cloth $65.00s Santayana. He is also the coauthor, with William F. Touponce, of Ray isbn 978-1-60635-071-3 Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Since 2000, he has edited several archival 544 pp., 61 x 91 volumes of Bradbury’s fiction. Becoming Ray Bradbury, his extensive illustrations, appendixes, notes, study of Bradbury’s early career, is forthcoming. textual apparatus, index USAC

call to order 419-281-1802 9 jim tully American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak Foreword by Ken Burns

The first biography of the hard-boiled vagabond writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties

“Wonderful, hugely important”—Ken Burns, from the Foreword

The son of an Irish ditch-digger, Jim Tully (1886–1947) left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country as a “road kid,” he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, sleeping in hobo jungles, avoid- ing railroad cops, begging meals from back doors, and haunting public libraries. After six years on the road, he jumped off a railroad car in Kent, Ohio, with wild aspirations of becoming a writer. While chasing his dream, Tully worked as a chain maker, boxer, newspaper reporter, and tree surgeon. All the while he was crafting his memories of the road into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the American underclass. After moving to ollywoodH and working for Charlie Chaplin, Tully began to write a stream of critically acclaimed books mostly about his road years, including Beggars of Life, Circus Parade, Blood on the Moon, “If all men wrote as honestly as Jim Shadows of Men, and Shanty Irish. He quickly established himself as a Tully, setting forth their goodness major American author and used his status to launch a parallel career as and their nastiness equally, with no a Hollywood journalist. Much as his gritty books shocked the country, attempt at exaggerating either, books his magazine articles on movies shocked Hollywood. Along the way, would be better and fewer.” he picked up such close friends as W. C. Fields, Jack Dempsey, Damon —The Saturday Review of Literature Runyon, Lon Chaney, Frank Capra, and Erich von Stroheim. He also memorably crossed paths with Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Langston Hughes. Sure to be the definitive biography for decades to come, Jim Tully: Biography/Literature American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler compellingly describes May the hardscrabble life of an Irish American storyteller, from his immigrant Cloth $39.95t isbn 978-1-60635-076-8 roots, rural upbringing, and life as a hobo riding the rails to the emergent 376 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ dream factory of early and Golden Age Hollywood and the fall of his appendix, illustrations, notes, index fortunes during the Great Depression. Many saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully.

Paul J. Bauer is a used and rare book dealer in Kent, Ohio. He is the coauthor of Frazier Robinson’s autobiography, Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Mark Dawidziak has been the television critic at The Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1999. A theater, film, and television reviewer for thirty years, his many nonfiction books include The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible, The Columbo Phile: A Casebook, Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing, The Night Stalker Companion: A 25th Anniversary Tribute, Horton Foote’s The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay about Mark Twain, and The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula. He is also a novelist and a playwright. Ken Burns has been making documentary films since the early 1980s. He has directed and produced some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The War, and The West.

10 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com “feel the bonds that draw” Images of the Civil War at the Western Reserve Historical Society Christine Dee

A Civil War sesquicentennial volume featuring the collection of one of the nation’s leading historical societies

For a century and a half, images of the Civil War have allowed millions of Americans to experience, commemorate, and reinter- pret the conflict. Photographs, engravings, lithographs, and original artwork have revealed heroic volunteers, mobilized regiments, battle preparations, and the war’s grim aftermath. “Feel the Bonds That Draw” presents nearly 200 images from the extensive Civil War photographic collections of Cleve- land’s Western Reserve Historical Society, complementing author Christine Dee’s reflections on topics such as historical memory, the war as economic engine, and the impact of mobilization and combat on civilians and the environment. Included in the volume are stirring images by Mathew Brady, preeminent Civil War photographer, and by WRHS Illustrated History Series Henry Moore, who documented military fortifications and soldiers, par- September ticularly at Fort Pulaski on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Cloth $34.95t isbn 978-1-60635-091-1 Moore photographed troops in traditional poses and groupings, and he c. 160 pp., 81 x 11 captured the likenesses of formerly enslaved African Americans. These illustrations, notes, biblio, index latter pictures played an important role in shaping public opinion in the North in support of emancipation. “Feel the Bonds That Draw” is a fine addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of America’s cruelest conflict.

Published in cooperation with the Western Reserve Historical Society

Christine Dee is assistant professor of history at Fitchburg State Univer- sity in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and is the author of Ohio’s War: The Civil War in Documents.

call to order 419-281-1802 11 shadows of antietam Robert J. Kalasky

A revolutionary re-creation of the historic Antietam Battlefield photographs

The Battle of Antietam, fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, “Kalasky has produced a seminal study 1862, was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties on the photography of Antietam. This on both sides. While the battle was tactically inconclusive, it resulted in important work should be required two significant milestones. First, because Robert E. Lee failed to carry reading for all serious students of the the war successfully into the North, Great Britain was dissuaded from battle.” recognizing the Confederate States of America diplomatically. Second, —Ted Alexander, Chief Historian, Antietam National Battlefield the battle gave President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. “Kalasky brings to the living the dead After the battle, two photographers sent by Mathew Brady— of Antietam.” Alexander Gardner and James Gibson—recorded the horror of war with —Dennis Frye, author of Antietam the first-ever images of dead American soldiers. Gardner’s and Gibson’s Revealed legendary photos have been the subject of debate for decades. The lack of information about locations, dates, and times in the thousands of photographs taken during the war has limited any thorough understanding of the photographers’ work and led to much speculation. In Shadows of Antietam, Robert J. Kalasky has painstakingly re-created Gardner’s and Gibson’s output, retracing their footsteps by location, date, and time to chronologically and sequentially place their images. With the help of reenactors and black-and-white photography, Kalasky has assembled a comprehensive study, based on sunlight and shadow, of the Civil War History/Military History 74 known glass plates recorded by Gardner and Gibson at Antietam. Civil October War photography historians and buffs will appreciate this groundbreak- Cloth $49.00t ing research for correcting previous errors and misjudgments made isbn 978-1-60635-088-1 c. 224 pp., 11 x 8½ about the photographers’ trek across the battlefield and for answering illustrations, notes, biblio., index 150-year-old questions about their photographs.

Robert J. Kalasky attended Kent State University and graduated from the Northeast Ohio School of Massotherapy. He is currently a practicing massotherapist and is a lifelong resident of Youngstown, Ohio.

12 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com “they have left us here to die” The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry Edited by Glenn Robins

The chronicle of a Union soldier’s seven months in captivity

Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive—more than 194,000 of them from Union regiments—and held in prison camps infamous for breeding disease and death. Sgt. Lyle G. Adair of the 111th United States Colored Troops joined the thousands of Union prisoners when part of his regiment tasked with guarding the rail lines between Tennessee and northern Alabama was captured by Confederate cavalrymen. Adair, who had first enlisted in the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the age of seventeen and later became a recruiting agent in the 111th, spent the remainder of the war being shuffled from camp to camp as a prisoner of war. By the war’s end, he had been incarcerated in five different Confederate camps: Cahaba, Camp Lawton, Blackshear, Thomasville, and Andersonville. “They Have Left Us Here to Die” is an edited and annotated version of the diary Sergeant Adair kept of his seven months as a prisoner of war. The diary provides vivid descriptions of each of the five camps as Civil War in the North Series well as insightful observations about the culture of captivity. Adair notes November Cloth $19.95t with disdain the decision of some Union prisoners to take the oath of isbn 978-1-60635-101-7 allegiance to the Confederacy in exchange for their freedom and covers c. 72 pp., 5½ x 8½ the mock presidential election of 1864 held at Camp Lawton, where he illustrations, notes, biblio., index and his fellow inmates were forced to cast votes for either Lincoln or McClellan. But most significantly, Adair reflects on the breakdown of the prisoner exchange system between the North and South, especially the roles played by the Lincoln administration and the Northern home front. As a white soldier serving with African Americans, Adair also makes revealing observations about the influence of race on the experience of Civil War in the North Series captivity. Lesley J. Gordon, Editor Complete with numerous annotations comparing Adair’s accounts Civil War in the North highlights with other diaries, memoirs, and official reports, “They Have Left Us Here innovative scholarship that broadens our to Die” provides a platform for delving deeper into the culture of captivity understanding of what the American and the Civil War soldier experience. Civil War meant to Northern society. Launched in 2006, this series encom- Glenn Robins is associate professor of history at Georgia Southwestern passes overlooked and underresearched State University, just outside Andersonville. He is the author of The topics, from the battlefield to the home Bishop of the Old South: The Ministry and Civil War Legacy of Leonidas front, from the antebellum era through Polk and coeditor of and contributor to America and the Vietnam War: Reconstruction. Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation.

call to order 419-281-1802 13 The Story of a Thousand Albion W. Tourgée Edited by Peter Luebke

Forgotten Civil War testimony from a major American writer

This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée’s regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée, a lawyer and outspoken abolitionist from Williamsfield, Ohio, is best known for his semi-fictional novels about the reconstruction of the South following the Civil War, A Fool’s Errand and Bricks Without Straw. Both critically acclaimed best sellers, the novels catapulted Tourgée and Civil War in the North Series his relentless efforts to secure equality for African Americans into the November national spotlight. Cloth $59.00t The Story of a Thousand also received a warm reception upon its isbn 978-1-60635-102-4 c. 516 pp., 6 x 9 publication, although it never achieved the level of recognition of his other illustrations, appendix, notes, works. Written at the behest of his former comrades in the 105th Ohio, The biblio., index Story of a Thousand draws on Tourgée’s own wartime papers, as well as diaries, letters, and recollections of other veterans, to detail the remarkable story of the regiment during its campaigns in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and Sher- man’s March to the Sea. Tourgée concentrates on the lives and experiences of the enlisted soldiers, describing the backgrounds of the men and how they rallied around the Union flag as citizen soldiers and also on discussions about the role of slavery as the impetus of the war. Tourgée’s concern for the common soldier prefigures the scholarship of twentieth- century historians, such as Bell Irvin Wiley, who devoted attention to the men in the ranks rather than the generals and politicians in charge. Historian Peter Luebke revives Albion W. Tourgée’s lost testimony of the war in this new edition of The Story of a Thousand. He includes an index and a scholarly introduction that draws on extensive research to describe the writing, production, and reception of the book. Luebke also places the work in the context of recent Civil War scholarship. The inclusion of famed illustrator Frederic Remington’s engravings, which accompanied the book’s serialization in The Cosmopolitan magazine in 1894 and 1895, also enhances the text. Scholars, students, and enthusiasts of the Civil War and Ohio history are sure to enjoy this military account by one of Reconstruction’s harsh- est and most articulate critics.

Peter Luebke received a B.A. from the College of William & Mary and an M.A. in history from the University of Virginia. He studies the Ameri- can Civil War, with a focus on Northern soldiers.

14 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Army Raiders The Special Activities Group in Korea Richard L. Kiper

Examines the role of American special operations during the Korean War

Despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea, members of the Far East Command Raider Company and its parent organization, the Special Activities Group, have received little attention from historians. Typically relegated to a paragraph at most, but more often a footnote, the Raider story usually begins and ends on the night of September 12, 1950, with a raid near Kunsan. From then until being inactivated on March 31, 1951, the Special Activities Group simply disappears from Korean War histories. Army Raiders corrects this omission. Primarily the history of one company and its headquarters, Army Raid- ers tells the story of ordinary human U.S. Army photograph beings who carried out extraordinary missions. Boarding rubber boats in the Yellow Sea and paddling far behind enemy lines, they landed at Inchon, sailed to the Wonsan area of North Korea, and conducted counter-guerrilla operations until over- whelming Chinese intervention forced all Allied units to withdraw from the North. Those critical missions continued into the difficult fighting of early 1951. Much of Army Raiders is based on the words of the participants them- History/Military History selves. Using little-known primary sources, oral histories, and official August records, author Richard L. Kiper tells this unit’s riveting tale. Where Cloth $39.95t possible, first-person accounts have been verified and supplemented with isbn 978-1-60635-084-3 official reports, maps, and documents. In reconciling personal memories c. 320 pp., 6 x 9 illustrations, maps, appendixes, and official reports, Army Raiders fills a gap in the historiography of the notes, biblio., index Korean War.

Richard L. Kiper is a retired lieutenant colonel (West Point, 1967) who earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uni- form (The Kent State University Press, 1999), the coauthor of U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, and the editor of Dear Catherine, Dear Taylor: The Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier and His Wife. Kiper has taught at West Point, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and Kansas City Kansas Community College. He is currently an analyst at the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Center in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

call to order 419-281-1802 15 Slings and Slingstones The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania and the Americas Anthropolgy/Archaeology/ Weapons Robert York and Gigi York October Cloth $55.00s A fascinating examination of an overlooked weapon isbn 978-1-60635-107-9 c. 224 pp., 7 x 10 illustrations, notes, biblio., index For most of us, our knowledge of slings and slingstones begins and ends with the biblical tale of David slaying Goliath. Scholars and archaeologists have told us that slings like the one David employed were common in the Old World, used not just for shepherd boys to kill giants but for protecting herds, hunting, and combat. However, few scholars have addressed the function slings have occupied outside of Eurasian civiliza- tions, especially their use in Oceania and the Americas. In this astounding new archaeological survey, authors Robert York and Gigi York examine the history of Oceania and the Americas to unveil the significant role slings and slingstones played in developing societies. They present new evidence that suggests that unlike David who plucked rounded pebbles from a stream, inhabitants of the Pacific Islands delib- erately fashioned sling missiles out of coral, stone, and clay into uniquely deadly shapes. They also show that the use of slings in the Americas was more pervasive and inclined to variability than previously recognized. Well documented, bountifully illustrated, and thoroughly researched, Slings and Slingstones is sure to engage readers interested in expanding their knowledge of the past. It is an essential reference for archaeologists, historians, and students of the history of arms and weaponry.

Robert York and Gigi York are fellows of the University of Wyoming’s Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology in Laramie. They also hold research associate appointments at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and at the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Museum of History and Culture in Saipan. Between them, they share some sixty years of professional experience in the fields of archaeology, museum collections, and cultural resources management. They have written and published numerous reports and articles about their work.

16 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Green Suns and Faërie Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien Verlyn Flieger

A major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship

With the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien’s popularity has never been higher. In Green Suns and Faërie, author Verlyn Flieger, one of world’s foremost Tolkien scholars, presents a selection of her best articles—some never before published—on a range of Tolkien topics. The essays are divided into three distinct sections. The first explores Tolkien’s ideas of sub-creation—the making of a Secondary World and its relation to the real world, the second looks at Tolkien’s reconfigura- tion of the medieval story tradition, and the third places his work firmly within the context of the twentieth century and modernist literature. With discussions ranging from Tolkien’s concepts of the hero to the much-misunderstood nature of Bilbo’s last riddle in The Hobbit, Flieger reveals Tolkien as a man of both medieval learning and modern sensibility—one who is deeply engaged with the past and future, the regrets and hopes, the triumphs and tragedies, and above all the profound difficulties and dilemmas of his troubled century. Taken in their entirety, these essays track a major scholar’s deepening understanding of the work of the master of fantasy. Green Suns and Faërie is sure to become a cornerstone of Tolkien scholarship.

Verlyn Flieger is professor of English at the University of Maryland Literature and Literary where she teaches courses on Tolkien, medieval and modern literature, Criticism and comparative mythology. She has written three books on Tolkien: August Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music (all published Paper $24.95t by The Kent State University Press). She has also edited a critical edition isbn 978-1-60635-094-2 c. 224 pp., 6 x 9 of Tolkien’s novella Smith of Wootton Major and an expanded edition notes, biblio., index with notes and commentary of Tolkien’s most influential theoretical essay, “On Fairy-Stories.”

call to order 419-281-1802 17 Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden Twenty-five Years of Criticism Edited by Suzanne del Gizzo and Frederic J. Svoboda

First book-length study of the novel that transformed Heming- Hemingway Studies/ way scholarship Literature and Literary Criticism August When The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years Cloth 55.00s after Ernest Hemingway’s death, it was a watershed event that changed isbn 978-1-60635-080-5 readers’ and scholars’ perceptions of the famous American author. Fol- c. 352 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ illustrations, notes, biblio., index lowing five months in the life of protagonist David Bourne, a rising young writer of fiction, and his highly intelligent but artistically frus- trated wife, Catherine, the novel is unique among Hemingway’s works. Its exploration of gender roles and identities, unconventional sexual practices, race, and artistic expression challenged the traditional notions scholars and readers had of the iconic writer, and it sparked a debate that has revolutionized Hemingway studies. It was also the first of Hemingway’s posthumously published novels to garner a storm of criticism regarding the editing of its text. Many comparative studies have been done between the original manuscript, which contains over 2,000 pages, and its heavily edited published version, which has little over 200 pages. Despite the whirlwind surrounding The Garden of Eden, no book-length study of the novel has ever been published—until now. In Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden, editors Suzanne del Gizzo and Frederic J. Svoboda have collected the best essays and reviews—pieces that examine the novel’s themes, its composition and structure, and the complex issue of editing a manuscript for posthumous publication—and placed them in a single, cohesive volume. Among the included works are E. L. Doctorow’s famous New York Times review “Braver Than We Thought,” a new essay by Tom Jenks examining his editing process in “Editing Hemingway: The Garden of Eden,” and Mark Spilka’s “Heming- way’s Barbershop Quintet: The Garden of Eden Manuscript,” a precursor to his groundbreaking study of Hemingway’s concerns with sex and gender roles, Hemingway’s Quarrel with Androgyny. Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden is a must-read text for scholars, students, and readers of Hemingway.

Suzanne del Gizzo is assistant professor of English at Chestnut Hill Col- lege in Philadelphia. She received her Ph.D. in English literature from Tulane University in 2003. Her articles and reviews on Hemingway have appeared in The Hemingway Review, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Modern Fiction Studies, and other publications. She is a board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. Frederic J. Svoboda is chair of the Department of English at the University of Michigan–Flint. He received his Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University in 1978. He is the author of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises: The Crafting of a Style and the coeditor of Hemingway: Up in Michigan Perspectives.

18 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com HEMINGWAY, RACE, AND ART Bloodlines and the Color Line Marc Kevin Dudley

A social historical reading of Hemingway through the lens of race

William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interroga- tor of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner’s racial concerns but extended them beyond the South to encompass the entire nation. Though Hemingway wrote extensively about Native Americans and African Americans, always in the back of his mind was Africa. Dudley sees Hemingway’s fascina- tion with, and eventual push toward, the African continent as a grand experiment meant to both placate and comfort the white psyche, and to challenge and unsettle it, too. Twentieth-century white America was plagued by guilt in its dealings with Native Ameri- cans; simultaneously, it faced an increasingly dissatisfied African American populace. Marc Kevin Dudley Hemingway Studies/American demonstrates how Hemingway’s interest in race was closely aligned to Literature/African American Studies a national anxiety over a changing racial topography. Affected by his September American pedigree, his masculinity, and his whiteness, Hemingway’s Cloth $45.00s treatment of race is characteristically complex, at once both a perpetua- isbn 978-1-60635-092-8 tion of type and a questioning of white self-identity. c. 160 pp., 6 x 9 Hemingway, Race, and Art expands our understanding of Hemingway notes, biblio., index and his work and shows how race consciousness pervades the texts of one of America’s most important and influential writers.

Marc Kevin Dudley is assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published in the Hemingway Review and is currently at work on an anthology of Afro-European literature. This is his first book.

call to order 419-281-1802 19 Darling Ro and the Benét Women Evelyn Helmick Hively

The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920s

The Benét name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize–winning poets and novelists during the first half of the twentieth century. Less well remembered are the remarkable women related to the Benét brothers, including Rosemary Carr, Stephen’s wife; Laura, his sister; Elinor Wylie, William’s second wife; and Kathleen Norris, the popular novelist who raised the children of her brother-in-law William. Darling Ro and the Benét Women presents a revealing glimpse of social and literary life in New York and Paris during the 1920s. Using a recently released collection of letters from the Benét Collection at Yale University, author Evelyn Helmick Hively extracts captivating anecdotes and impres- sions about a talented group of writers and impressive feminist figures. Written by Rosemary Carr Benét to her mother, Dr. Rachel Hickey Carr (one of Chicago’s first women physicians), the compilation of letters and short dispatches from Paris provides the focus of the book. A gifted poet and journalist, Rosemary Carr was a prolific writer of Biography/Literature July articles for the New York Herald-Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue; of Cloth $34.95s stories and poems for The New Yorker and other magazines; and hun- isbn 978-1-60635-096-6 dreds of letters. She belonged to a remarkably skillful, social, and artistic c. 160 pp., 5½ x 8½ group of men and women who bonded early in life, and her letters paint illustrations, notes, biblio., index fascinating portraits of their lives, careers, and relationships. Darling Ro and the Benét Women offers an insider’s perspective of a well-known cosmopolitan American family.

Evelyn Helmick Hively has been professor of English, director of Ameri- can Studies, academic dean, and vice president of the American Associa- tion of State Colleges and Universities. She is the author of Willa Cather’s Novel Cycle and A Private Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie (The Kent State University Press, 2003) and the editor of Selected Works of Elinor Of Related Interest Wylie (The Kent State University Press, 2005). A Private Madness Evelyn Hively Paper, $29.00t i s b n 978-0-87338-746-0

Selected Works of Elinor Wylie Evelyn Helmick Hively Paper, $29.00t i s b n 978-0-87338-829-0

20 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Literature in Translation Teaching Issues and Reading Practices Edited by Carol Maier and Françoise Massardier-Kenney

New pedagogy for studying literature in translation

In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through works in translation, students in our mostly mono- lingual society are at last becoming acquainted with the multilingual and multicultural world in which they will live and work. Many instructors have expanded their reach to teach texts that originate from across the globe. Unfortunately, literature in English translation is frequently taught as if it had been written in English, and students are not made familiar with the cultural, linguistic, and literary context in which that literature was produced. As a result, they submit what they read to their own cultural expectations; they do not read in translation and do not reap the benefits of intercultural communication. Here a true challenge arises for an instructor. Books in translation seldom contain introductory information about the mediation that translation implies or the stakes involved in the transfer of cultural information. Instructors are often left to find their own material about the author Translation Studies Series or the culture of the source text. Lacking the appropriate pedagogical Now Available Cloth $49.00s tools, they struggle to provide information about either the original work isbn 978-1-60635-049-2 or about translation itself, and they might feel uneasy about teaching Paper $39.00s material for which they lack adequate preparation. Consequently, they isbn 978-1-60635-108-6 restrict themselves to well-known works in translation or works from 272 pp., 6 x 9 notes, biblio., index other countries originally written in English. Literature in Translation: Teaching Issues and Reading Practices square- ly addresses this pedagogical lack. The book’s sixteen essays provide for Of Related Interest instructors a context in which to teach works from a variety of languages and cultures in ways that highlight the effects of linguistic and cultural Translating Slavery, Volume 1 transfers. Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier- Carol Maier is professor of Spanish at Kent State University, where she Kenney is affiliated with the Institute for Applied Linguistics. A recipient of Paper, $39.95 translation fellowships from both the NEA and NEH, she has written i s b n 978-1-60635-008-9 extensively on translation theory; coedited, with Anuradha Dingwaney, Between Languages and Cultures: Translations and Cross-Cultural Texts; and published translations of work by numerous authors, most recently Translating Slavery, Nivaria Tejera’s The Ravine and Rosa Chacel’s Dream of Reason. Volume 2 Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier-Kenney is professor of French and director of the Françoise Massardier- Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University. She is the editor Kenney of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series and coeditor Paper, $29.95s of the journal George Sand Studies. Her publications include the mono- i s b n 978-1-60635-020-1 graph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand, the newly edited edition of Translating Slavery, Volumes 1 and 2 (The Kent State University Press, 2009), and translations of Sand’s Valvèdre and Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne (The Kent State University Press, 2009).

call to order 419-281-1802 21 The Imperfect Revolution Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America Gordon S. Barker

Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns

On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills had littered the streets decrying Burns’s arrest, and abolitionists, intent on freeing Burns, had attacked with a battering ram the courthouse in which he was detained, leaving one dead, several wounded, and thirteen in custody. In the end it would take federal officials nearly 2,000 troops and $40,000 to send Burns back to Virginia. No fugitive slave would be captured in Boston again. Carried out under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which permitted American Abolitionism and slaveholders to seize runaway slaves across state lines by merely testify- Antislavery Series ing ownership, Burns’s arrest and Boston’s subsequent campaign to free Now Available Cloth $39.95s him is generally regarded by scholars as the impetus that spurred the isbn 978-1-60635-069-0 adoption of outright confrontational tactics by abolitionists across the 192 pp., 6 x 9 North—an impetus that led, ultimately, to war. Such interpretations, notes, index however, gloss over the confusion and chaos many midcentury Bosto- nians felt over abolition. In The Imperfect Revolution, author Gordon Barker challenges the traditionally held notion that the rendition of Anthony Burns fueled an American Abolitionism and antislavery groundswell in the North. He exposes the diverse beliefs— Antislavery Series many of which were less than noble—held by Bostonians struggling to make sense of the racial, class, and ethnic conflicts arising in the city. John David Smith, Editor Drawing on newspaper accounts, cutting-edge scholarship, and Burns’s American Abolitionism and Antislavery own writings, Barker shows how antislavery sentiments competed with a is a new series that will present the best wide range of other opinions, including the desire to preserve the Union scholarship on antislavery activism and as it was, concerns about preserving law and order, mistrust of whites by abolitionism in the eighteenth- and their black neighbors, and outright racism. nineteenth-century United States. The series will include books by promising A much-needed addition to the study of abolition and antislavery young scholars as well as by established activism, The Imperfect Revolution will be of value to historians and stu- leaders in the field.V olumes published dents. in the series will include biographies, monographs, anthologies, and new edi- Gordon S. Barker is assistant professor of history at Bishop’s University tions of classic works on the antislavery in Quebec, Canada. His works have appeared in the Virginia Magazine of and abolitionist crusades. History and Biography and the American Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties.

22 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Interpreting American History The Age of Andrew Jackson Edited by Brian D. McKnight and James S. Humphreys

The inaugural volume in a new historiography series

Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier historians. Invariably, this divergence of thoughts creates a dissonance between historians about the causes and meanings of prior events. The Kent State University Press’s new Interpret- ing American History Series aims to help readers learn how truth emerges from the clash of interpretations present in the study of history. In the series’s first volume, Interpreting American History: The Age of Andrew Jackson, experts on Jacksonian America address the changing views of historians over the past century on a watershed era in U.S. history. A two-term president of the United States, Jackson was a powerful leader who widened constitutional boundaries on the presidency, shaping policy himself instead of deferring to the wishes of Congress. The essayists in this volume review the most important issues of the period—including the Corrupt Bargain, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act, and Jacksonian democracy, economics, and Interpreting American History Series reform—and discuss their interpretation over the last hundred years by November such historians as Frederick Jackson Turner, Richard Hofstadter, Arthur M. Paper $29.95s Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz, Robert V. Remini, Daniel Feller, and David isbn 978-1-60635-098-0 Walker Howe. c. 160 pp., 5½ x 8½ An insightful compilation of essays, Interpreting American History: notes, biblio., index The Age of Andrew Jackson will acquaint readers with the nineteenth- century world of Andrew Jackson and the ways in which historians have interpreted his life and times.

Brian D. McKnight is associate professor of history at University of Vir- Interpreting American History Series ginia’s College at Wise. He is the editor of Life in the Coal Camps of Wise Brian D. McKnight and County and author of Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appala- James S. Humphreys, Editors chian Kentucky and Virginia. James S. Humphreys is assistant professor of Southern history at Murray State University in Kentucky. He is the Intended for graduate students and author of Francis Butler Simkins: A Life. others interested in historiography, the Interpreting American History Series sur- veys historiographical interpretations of important U.S. historical eras and events, examining not only the intellectual shifts that have taken place but the various catalysts that drove these shifts.

call to order 419-281-1802 23 Arguing Americanism Pro-Franco Lobbyists, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy, and the Spanish Civil War Michael E. Chapman

The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political New Studies in U.S. Foreign struggle in Spain Relations Series September Cloth $60.00s In 1938 the United States was embroiled in a vicious debate between isbn 978-1-60635-078-2 supporters of the two sides of the Spanish Civil War, who sought either c. 288 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ to lift or to retain the U.S. arms embargo on Spain. The embargo, which appendix, notes, biblio., index favored Gen. Francisco Franco’s Nationalist regime over the ousted Republican government of the Loyalists, received heavy criticism for enabling a supposedly fascist-backed takeover during a time when the Nazi party in Germany was threatening the annexation of countries across Europe. Supporters of General Franco, however, saw the resistance New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations of the Loyalists as being spurred on by the Soviet Union, which sought to Series establish a communist government abroad. Mary Ann Heiss, Editor Since World War II, American historians have traditionally sided with the Loyalist supporters, validating their arguments that the pro-Nation- This series focuses on works that alists were un-American for backing an unpalatable dictator. In Arguing expand the parameters of U.S. foreign relations. Chronologically broad and Americanism, author Michael E. Chapman examines the long-overlooked topically diverse, it is designed to further pro-Nationalist argument. Employing new archival sources, Chapman the internationalization—indeed, documents a small yet effective network of lobbyists—including engineer globalization—of the field by publish- turned writer John Eoghan Kelly, publisher Ellery Sedgwick, home- ing a wide variety of innovative books, maker Clare Dawes, muralist Hildreth Meière, and philanthropist Anne including interdisciplinary studies, that Morgan—who fought to promote General Franco’s Nationalist Spain and place the United States within a larger, keep the embargo in place. transnational context. Areas of focus Arguing Americanism also goes beyond the embargo debate to exam- include, but are not limited to, identity ine the underlying issues that gripped 1930s America. Chapman posits formation and projection, borderlands studies, comparative history, and that the Spanish embargo argument was never really about Spain but cultural transfer. rather about the soul of Americanism, the definition of democracy, and who should do the defining. Pro-Loyalists wanted the pure democracy of the ballot box; pro-Nationalists favored the checks and balances of indi- rect democracy. By pointing to what was happening in Spain, each side tried to defend its version of Americanism against the foreign forces that threatened it. For Franco supporters, it was the spread of international Marxism, toward which they felt Roosevelt and his New Deal were too sympathetic. The pro-Nationalists intensified an argument that became a precursor to a fundamental change in American national identity—a change that would usher in the Cold War era. Arguing Americanism will appeal to political scientists, cultural historians, and students of U.S. foreign relations.

Michael E. Chapman is associate professor of history at Peking University. He has published several journal articles and books, including Lessons of the War in Spain and Thesis Writer’s Guide. He divides his time between Beijing and Boston, where he lives with his wife and two children.

24 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Safe for Decolonization The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore S. R. Joey Long

How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series June In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical Cloth $60.00s political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of isbn 978-1-60635-086-7 Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States, c. 288 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ notes, biblio., index under the Eisenhower administration, sought to fill the vacuum left by the British retreat and launched into a campaign to shape the emerging Singapore nation-state in accordance with its Cold War policies. Based on a wide array of Chinese- and English-language archival sources from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States, Safe for Decolonization examines in depth the initiatives—both covert and public—undertaken by the United States in late-colonial Singapore. Apart from simply analyzing the effect of American activities on the politics of the island, author S. R. Joey Long also examines their impact on the relationship between Great Britain and the United States, and how the Anglo-American nuclear policy toward China and the establishment of a regional security institution (the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza- tion) affected the security and decolonization of a strategic British base. Long sketches a highly detailed and nuanced account of the relations between the United States, Great Britain, and Singapore. He not only describes the often clumsy attempts by covert American operatives to sway top political leaders, infiltrate governments, influence labor unions, and shape elections, but he also shows how Eisenhower’s public initiatives proved to have far-reaching positive results and demonstrates that the Eisenhower administration’s policies toward Singapore, while not always well advised, nonetheless helped to lay the foundation for friendly Singapore–U.S. relations after 1960. As the first multi-archival work on the U.S. intervention in Singapore, Safe for Decolonization makes an important contribution to the literature on Southeast Asia–U.S. relations. It will be of interest to specialists in decolonization, diplomatic history, modern Southeast Asian history, and the history of the early Cold War.

S. R. Joey Long is assistant professor of history and international affairs at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Techno- logical University, Singapore. A Fulbright scholar in 2010, Long received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the history of Southeast Asia–U.S. relations and contemporary Asia-Pacific security.

call to order 419-281-1802 25 Seeing Drugs Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969–1976 Daniel Weimer

A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series June Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has Cloth $65.00s spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the isbn 978-1-60635-059-1 United States. Explaining the conceptual framework within which poli- c. 328 pp., 6⅛ x 9¼ cymakers understood illegal opium production and trafficking, Seeing maps, notes, biblio., index Drugs examines the genesis of the war on drugs during the Nixon and Ford administrations when the United States developed the policies that set the parameters of subsequent American drug control abroad. “Daniel Weimer’s Seeing Drugs Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of puts a new spin on scholarship drug-addicted Vietnam veterans carrying their affliction home and dealing with U.S. drug-control propelled by the belief that heroin addiction spreads like a contagious policy during the period 1969– disease, U.S. officials identified three Third World nations—Thailand, 1976 by examining it through the Burma, and Mexico—as the primary sources of illegal narcotics servicing lens of cultural diplomacy.” the American drug market. Author Daniel Weimer demonstrates that —Mary Ann Heiss, Editor, New drug-control officials in these countries confronted a host of interlocking Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations factors shaping the illicit narcotics trade and that, in response to these Series challenges, policymakers applied modernization and counterinsurgency theory to devise strategies to assist the Thai, Burmese, and Mexican “Essential reading for anyone governments in curbing drug trafficking. The Nixon and Ford adminis- interested in both the history of trations sincerely believed their policies could rein in the narcotics trade U.S. drug policy and the process and diminish addiction within the United States. In the end, however, of modernization during the Cold the drug war only guaranteed continued American intervention in the War.” Third World, where the majority of illegal drug crops grew. —William O. Walker III, author of Through interdisciplinary and comparative analysis, Seeing Drugs Drug Control in the Americas and examines the contours of the burgeoning drug war, the cultural signifi- Opium and Foreign Policy cance of drugs and addiction, and their links to the formation of national identity within the United States, Thailand, Burma, and Mexico. By highlighting the prevalence of modernization and counterinsurgency discourse within drug-control policy, Weimer reveals an unexplored and important facet of the history of U.S–Third World interaction.

Daniel Weimer is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit Univer- sity, where he teaches courses on contemporary America, international relations, and environmentalism. His current research explores the theme of the control of nature within American foreign relations.

26 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Trilateralism and Beyond Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma during and after the Cold War Edited by Robert A. Wampler

A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War New Studies in U.S. Foreign flashpoint Relations Series October The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to Cloth $55.00s the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains isbn 978-1-60635-104-8 c. 192 pp., 61 x 91, unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear notes, biblio., index danger for the United States and its allies. Two triangular alliances—one comprised of the United States, South Korea, and Japan, and the other of Russia, China, and North Korea—lie at the heart of the security challenge and all efforts to pursue a final peace treaty. Trilateralism and Beyond brings together a collection of essays by leading American, South Korean, and Japanese scholars that probe the historical dynamics formed and driven by the Korean security dilemma. Drawing on newly declassified documents secured by the National Secu- rity Archive’s Korea Project, along with new archival resources in China and former Warsaw Pact countries, the contributors examine the critical relationship between the United States and South Korea, exploring the delicate balancing act of bolstering the security alliance and fostering greater democracy in South Korea. The volume expands its focus to include Japan and a look at the history and future challenges of trilateral security cooperation on the peninsula; impending difficulties for security cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan; and the trials that Russia and China have experienced in dealing with an often demanding, unpredictable ally in North Korea. The authors move beyond simple images of ideological support by the two great powers to draw a more complex and nuanced picture. Trilateralism and Beyond offers an essential historical perspective on one of the most enduring challenges for U.S. foreign policy—ensuring stability on the tumultuous Korean peninsula.

Robert A. Wampler is a senior fellow at the National Security Archive, a nonprofit foreign policy research institute based at George Washington University. He is the editor of three declassified document collections, including The United States and Japan: Diplomatic, Security and Econom- ic Relations, 1960–1976 and 1977–1992 and The United States and the Two Koreas, 1969–2000. He also is coeditor of Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951–2001.

call to order 419-281-1802 27 Remembering: Cleveland’s Jewish Voices Edited by Judah Rubinstein, John J. Grabowski, Sally H. Wertheim, and Alan Bennett

A literary collection that gives voice to a significant Northeast Ohio immigrant community

Since the early nineteenth century, Cleveland and the surrounding region have benefited from the emigration of European Jewry. A unique anthology of essays, short stories, and poems, Remembering gathers for the first time rare and previously inaccessible writings about the Jewish experience in Northeast Ohio. Dating from the late 1800s to the 1980s, this collection is organized along five major themes— arts and culture, civic life, work and business, continuity, and philanthropy and service. The editors present a variety of voices that discuss the Jewish cultural gardens, Yiddish theater, socialism in the working class and women’s role in the Garment Strike, the cigar industry and Jewish Voices of Diversity Series farming, the Alsbacher Document, philanthropic efforts by the Jewish April Community Federation of Cleveland, and many other topics. Paper $24.00t Including two pieces by editor Judah Rubinstein, A Cleveland Jewish isbn 978-1-60635-074-4 Reader presents a narrative approach to regional history and will appeal 352 pp., 6 x 9 illustrations, notes, biblio., to students of cultural history, urban studies, and Ohio history, as well as index to members of the Jewish community.

Published in Cooperation with the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland

Voices of Diversity Series Judah Rubinstein (1921–2003) helped develop and maintain the Cleveland John J. Grabowski, Editor Jewish Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society. He began his career documenting local Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Semi- In celebration of the Cleveland area’s nary’s American Jewish History Center and was the first research director rich ethnic heritage, Voice of Diversity of the Jewish Community Federation. He is the coauthor of Merging Tradi- focuses on firsthand accounts of the John ethnic experience in Northeast Ohio. tions: Jewish Life in Cleveland (The Kent State University Press, 2004). Through personal narratives, translations J. Grabowski is the Krieger-Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History or reprints of previously published at Case Western Reserve University and vice president for collections at accounts, and hard-to-find histories of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Sally H. Wertheim is dean emeritus regional immigrant communities, the and professor emeritus of education at John Carroll University. Alan Ben- stories and experiences of the people nett, executive vice president emeritus of the Jewish Education Center of who make up this diverse community Cleveland, is a founder of the National Association of Temple Educators. are told, adding to our understanding of He is the author of The Vision and the Will: A History of the National Asso- the history of the region. ciation of Temple Educators, 1954-2004.

28 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com An Integrated Boyhood Coming of Age in White Cleveland Phillip M. Richards

The memoir of a bookish black youth in mid-twentieth century Cleveland Voices of Diversity Series September Cloth $29.95t When Phillip M. Richards graduated from Yale in 1972, he had fulfilled isbn 978-1-60635-100-0 his parents’ dreams. Like many other black Clevelanders of their genera- c. 160 pp., 6 x 9 tion, they had come up from the South in the late forties and moved illustrations from neighborhood to neighborhood in search of better schools. As they followed bourgeois African Americans’ circular migration from Mt. Pleasant to Lee Harvard to South Taylor Road and finally to Forest Hills, Richards’s parents provided him with all of what they called “the good situations”—major work, classes at the Institute of Music, Boy Scouts, and education at University School—which midcentury Cleveland could offer its most ambitious new black residents. In An Integrated Boyhood, Richards candidly describes how this exemplary middle-class Cleveland sojourn left him hopelessly confused and dislocated at the very moment of his parents’ triumph. His narrative of success provides the background to a more private turmoil: Richards’s struggle to read the shifting meanings of his privileged experience amid the city’s shifting racial lines, the fringe on the Left, the tumult of rising black consciousness, and the fears of nervous white suburban neighbors. This coming-of-age story sings the undersong of an older generation’s hard-won success. Like all black Clevelanders, Richards was forced to struggle for his understanding of the city’s—and his own—endless racial confusion in the midst of frightening historical change. It is this reality that recurs throughout Richards’s memoir: the early encounters of a scared, bookish African American boy from Mt. Pleasant with what can only be described as the real world.

Phillip M. Richards teaches at Colgate University, where he is a professor in the Department of English. He is the author of Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters. He has published widely in professional journals and literary magazines.

call to order 419-281-1802 29 Sacred Landmarks Series Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue Architecture and Community Laura Wertheimer, Editor Michael J. Tevesz, Founding Walter C. Leedy Jr. Editor Edited by Sara Jane Pearman A collaborative publishing venture between the Kent State University A thorough examination of an influential building and the archi- Press and Cleveland State University’s tect behind its design College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the Sacred Landmarks Series Eric Mendelsohn’s modernist building, The Park Synagogue in Cleve- includes both works of scholarship and general interest that preserve history land Heights, Ohio, is one of the most significant post–World War II and increase understanding of religious buildings in the United States. Notable for its magnificent dome and its sites, structures, and organizations in natural wooded setting, it also had an immense architectural influence Northeast Ohio, in the United States, and on other religious structures in the Midwest. around the world. Erected during the late 1940s, the Synagogue was built in response to a large majority of the downtown Cleveland Jewish population moving to the eastern suburbs. In 1934, under the leadership of Rabbi Armond Cohen, the struggling Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo congregation bought the twelve-acre property of the defunct Park School in Cleveland Heights and later purchased an additional twenty-one acres of land adjacent to the Park property owned by John D. Rockefeller. Plans were developed for a new synagogue to be designed and built by the famous European architect Eric Mendelsohn. Today The Park Synagogue, dedicated in 1950, is home to one of the nation’s major Conservative congregations. Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue tells the story of the construction of Sacred Landmarks Series The Park Synagogue and examines how Mendelsohn consciously sought September to express the ideals and traditions of the congregation and Judaism Cloth $45.00t in its architectural forms. From one of the world’s largest copper-clad isbn 978-1-60635-085-0 domes weighing 680 tons to the shape of the sanctuary and spectacular c. 192 pp., 8½ x 11 illustrations, notes, biblio., index bimah, Mendelsohn sought to incorporate the architecture into Jewish ritual and worship. He favored dramatic curves of glass walls, circular stairwells, and porthole windows, and he used the circle as a dominant form throughout his career. The Park Synagogue is one of the few Men- delsohn buildings that remains virtually as it was built. Author Walter C. Leedy Jr. discusses how the construction of The Park Synagogue solidified the congregation, attracted new members, and set the stage for expansion into the next century. Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue brings unique insight into the development of the American Jewish community during the post–World War II period and into the evolution of Mendelsohn’s architecture.

Walter C. Leedy Jr. was an architectural historian and a professor at Cleveland State University. He passed away in 2006, shortly before Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue was finished. The book was completed by his longtime personal friend, Sara Jane Pearman, who is now retired from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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30 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com A Higher Contemplation Sacred Landmarks Series October Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages Cloth $42.00t Stephen N. Fliegel isbn 978-1-60635-093-5 c. 136 pp., 8½ x 11 illustrations, notes, glossary, Understanding medieval Christian art biblio., index

During the Middle Ages, religious art had a variety of functions and was prevalent in churches, public spaces, and private homes. Sculptures and paintings were used as altarpieces, movable images, choir screens, piers or niches, and reliquaries. They were placed behind, above, or near altars as well as on pulpits, lecterns, building exteriors, holy water fonts, tombs, and roadside shrines. They were also used for private devotion in the home. In addition to the obvious didactic function of religious images in medieval art, they filled other needs of both the beholder and the church: veneration. Candles were lit and censed before the sacred images; offerings were made in the name of the figures who were honored and cherished in a very direct way. Sacred images, an aid to meditation, served to remind Christians of the pious and virtuous lives of the saints and of their sacrifices. They embel- lished sacred spaces, giving them an otherworldly luster. Sacred art was an important ingredient in the formative power and energy of medieval piety. Some of the most profound and enduring works of art in Western civilization were produced for private devotion and public worship. Indeed, many of the most significant artists of the Middle Ages and Renaissance earned their livelihoods producing religious art in the service of the church. To access and understand this art today, we must be aware of its context, its intended audience, and its functions in the public or private space. In A Higher Contemplation, author Stephen N. Fliegel introduces medieval Christian iconography and its forms, meaning, function, context, and symbolism to twenty-first-century audiences. Serving as a guide to the subtleties, complexi- ties, richness, range, and antiquity of medieval Christian artistic traditions and the multiple levels in which they can be understood, this book will aid the reader in a journey of discovery and understanding of those sacred images. Beautifully designed with full-color illustrations throughout, A Higher Contemplation will appeal to students, teach- ers, travelers, art lovers, and those with an interest in the culture of the Middle Ages and the history of religion.

Stephen N. Fliegel is curator of medieval art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has published numerous scholarly articles, catalogs, and books on the subject of medieval art and has organized several international exhibitions on the subject. He lectures widely and is the Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Pedralbes author of Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages (The Kent State University Press, 2009).

call to order 419-281-1802 31 Dedication The Work of William P. Ginther, Ecclesiastical Architect Anthony J. Valleriano

An illustrated compendium of a prolific designer of Ohio churches

Sacred Landmarks Series Akron-based architect William P. Ginther (1858–1933) designed sixty- October three Roman Catholic churches, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Cloth $39.00t isbn 978-1-60635-103-1 Dedication is the first book to document his architectural designs. By c. 128 pp., 8½ x 11 combining historical images with twenty-first-century photographs, illustrations, notes, biblio., index author Anthony J. Valleriano presents the most comprehensive overview of Ginther’s architectural career available today. The son of German immigrants, Ginther demonstrated considerable drawing skills at an early age. In grade school, he was known for illustrat- ing pictures of the school building and grounds. As his skills advanced, Ginther was encouraged to study architecture as a profession at Buchtel College (now the University of Akron). Frank Wheary, a leading Akron architect of the time, spotted Ginther’s drawing talents and promptly put him to work. Under Wheary’s guidance, Ginther learned the craft of architectural drafting and engineering and helped design and supervise the construction of his first building, McKinley Church, in Canton, Ohio. Ginther became one of the most influential ecclesiastical architects in Ohio during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The designer of churches in Cleveland, Akron, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Erie, and many other communities, he defined the sense of sacred space for countless worship- ers and enriched the aesthetic and religious lives of the region’s residents.

Those interested in religious architecture or in Ohio historical architecture will find Dedication a valuable addition to their libraries.

Anthony J. Valleriano is graphic design manager at Case Western Reserve University.

32 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com The Local World Mira Rosenthal

Winner of the 2010 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Maggie Anderson, Judge

Wick Poetry First Book #17 “Mira Rosenthal’s The Local World incorporates deeply lived experience September and mystery in a fluent shape-shifting that can take you anywhere—and Paper $15.00t bring you back, changed. The poems are beautifully crafted narratives of isbn 978-1-60635-105-5 loss, travel, and salvage. There is a damaged family at the heart of these c. 72 pp., 5½ x 8½ poems, an abandoned farm, and many rooms, parks, and train cars in far places. Yet, like all really good poems, Rosenthal’s language consistently rises above its cries to wonder and beauty. What a joy to find this stun- ning first book to award the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.” —Maggie Anderson, Judge

Mira Rosenthal’s poetry has appeared widely in journals, including Plough- shares, The American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, West Branch, and Slate. Her translations of Polish poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and in 2007 Zephyr Press published her translation of The Forgotten Keys by Tomasz Rozycki. She has received grants from the NEA, the PEN American Center, ACLS, and the Fulbright Commission, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Cen- ter, the Banff Center, and elsewhere. She is also the founding editor of Lyric Poetry Review. After graduating from Reed College, she earned an M.F.A. from the University of Houston and is currently a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Indiana University.

The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize is awarded annually to a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. It is made possible through the Wick Poetry Center, directed by David Hassler. For guidelines, write to David Hassler, Director, Wick Poetry Center, 301 Satterfield Hall, Kent State University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001; email the Wick Center at [email protected]; or visit them online at www.kent.edu/wick.

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call to order 419-281-1802 33 Tethering World The Lonely-wilds Jody Rambo Elizabeth Breese

“Jody Rambo’s poems push and pull, travel and rest, “Traveling from her pastoral America to Neruda’s occupy and set free. Her ‘tether’ both holds her fast Chile and the Ireland of St. Kevin, Elizabeth to the facts and words that make up our world, but Breese sings the lonely-wild lyric of ditch flowers at the same time it liberates her to roam and travel, and raw honey, tornados and radios, broken inclined as she says, ‘to wander off into the green birds and sailors lost at sea. Her ars poetica: ‘little beyond recoverable limits.’ What I admire most bee hand in pocket editions, the rough- / cut about this book is the way the wide arc of history paper combs, dancing for the things it loves.’” and narrative and the smallest gesture of image and —Harryette Mullen word come together—tethered—into something wondrous and new.” —Jeffrey Thomson “As with Dickinson and Stevens, to understand an Elizabeth Breese poem is beside the point; one “Jody Rambo’s first book of poetry, Tethering World, apprehends it, the way one does a scent or strain is lyrical, tactile, and transcendent—in a word, of music. Roving, impure, funny, brainy, and enthralling. The very texture embodies a personal passionate, hers is work I want to keep beside me way of seeing and saying, as does the extraordinary for the good company and generous pleasures it range of circumstances. There is a beguiling strange- offers line by gorgeous line.” —Kathy Fagan ness to the writing, and philosophical smarts to boot. ‘I am weatherly,’ says the speaker in Tethering World, Elizabeth Breese teaches composition at the and she truly is, singularly so. This book is poetry Columbus College of Art and Design. She top to bottom.” —Marvin Bell received her M.F.A. from The Ohio State Univer- sity. Recent poems have appeared or are forth- “Pitched between Emily Dickinson’s ‘Dare you see coming in Barrow Street, FIELD, and Hayden’s a Soul at the White Heat?’ and William Blake’s ‘I Ferry Review. want! I want!,’ Jody Rambo’s Tethering World offers an elegant, somatic pastoral, a ‘weatherly’ sensibil- Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Four, #10 ity that forges the post-Lapsarian realm of loss and January desire into an alchemical mix of rue, awe, beauty, Paper $7.00t and change—what John Keats called a ‘vale of soul- isbn 978-1-60635-070-6 c. 36 pp., 51 x 81 making.’ Intelligent, prescient, eloquent, Rambo’s tethering of poems compels us to inherit its mani- fold, exquisitely wrought linguistic ravishments, its vision.” —Lisa Russ Spaar Manuscripts for the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series are selected through an open competition of Ohio poets and Jody Rambo holds an M.F.A. from Colorado State through a competition for students enrolled in Ohio colleges University. Her poems have appeared in Barrow and universities. For guidelines, write to David Hassler, Street, Gulf Coast, Notre Dame Review, Quarterly Director, Wick Poetry Center, 301 Satterfield Hall, Kent State West, Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001; email the publications. She is the recipient of two Individual Wick Center at [email protected]; or visit them online at Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, as www.kent.edu/wick. well as a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. She teaches creative writing at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Four, #9 January Paper $7.00t isbn 978-1-60635-073-7 c. 36 pp., 51 x 81

34 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com New in Paper Revised and Expanded

“Ungraspable The Ohio & Phantom” Erie Canal: A Essays on Moby- Glossary of Dick Terms Edited by John Bryant, Mary K. Second Edition, Bercaw Edwards, and Revised and Timothy Marr Expanded

“By invoking the notion Compiled by Terry K. Woods of Melville’s ‘ungraspable phantom of life,’ the edi- People who lived and worked on and alongside the tors of this volume want to suggest that the collection Ohio & Erie Canal had a vocabulary all their own. as a whole acknowledges the multiplicity in Melville’s Originally published in 1995, this glossary was the novel. If Moby-Dick is ‘ungraspable,’ it is only because first to list in one source the terms used to describe it cannot be grasped through one approach only. the boats, crews, locks, equipment, and canals. Terry And the fact that the novel lends itself to multiple K. Woods provides a dictionary of primary terms approaches and numerous interpretations accounts selected from official reports as well as terms taken for both its appeal to some and repulsion for others.” from interviews with former boatmen. This new edi- —from the Preface tion includes additional terms and a new introduction detailing the canal’s route—elevation, engineering, locks, feeders, and the businesses and communi- Melville Studies ties along the way. Paper $59.00s isbn 978-1-60635-068-3 392 pp., 6 x 9 Terry K. Woods is past president of both the Canal biblio., index Society of Ohio and the American Canal Society. He is former editor of Towpaths, the journal of the Canal Society of Ohio, and is widely recognized as an expert on the Ohio & Erie Canal. He is also the author of Ohio’s Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal (The Kent State University Press, 2008).

Regional Paper $15.00t isbn 978-1-60635-106-2 c. 56 pp., 51 x 81

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Though Murder Has The Adventuress No Tongue Murder, Blackmail, and The Lost Victim of Confidence Games in the Cleveland’s Mad Butcher Gilded Age James Jessen Badal Virginia A. With an Afterword McConnell and Appendix by This is the tale of Minnie Cathleen A. Cerny, Walkup, a nineteenth- M.D. century black widow, and James Jessen Badal tells her remarkable life of a gripping tale of justice crime. Author Virginia gone wrong in this story A. McConnell tells a story about Frank Dolezal, the full of scandal, gossip, only man actually arrested for the infamous “Torso theft, and murder and reveals the fascinating cast of Murders” in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1930s. It is characters who revolved around Walkup, including a also a modern story of forensic analysis as compel- former Louisiana governor and senator, a prominent ling as an episode of CSI. Using 1930s police reports, Ohio banking family, the partner of a famous railway inquest testimony, autopsy and archival photographs, tycoon, and a sleazy New Orleans district court judge. notes from primary investigators, and analyses from Cloth $29.95t isbn 978-1-60635-034-8 top forensic anthropologists and medical examin- ers, Badal establishes the facts, dispels rumors, and presents a thorough examination of the actual cause of Frank Dolezal’s mysterious death and theorizes on the identity of the real killer. Included are an analysis of the likely killer and a chronology of his gruesome spree by forensic psychiatrist Cathleen Cerny. Paper $22.95t isbn 978-1-60635-062-1

36 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Meet Me on Lake Erie, The Sportswriter Dearie! Who Punched Sam Cleveland’s Great Lakes McDowell Exposition, 1936–1937 And Other Sports Stories John Vacha Bob Dolgan In the summers of 1936 When he retired in 2006, and 1937 the Great Lakes Bob Dolgan had been a Exposition was presented sportswriter for forty-five in Cleveland, Ohio, along years at the Cleveland the Lake Erie shore, just Plain Dealer. Known for north of the downtown his unique perspectives business area. At the time, on sports figures, Dol- Cleveland was America’s sixth largest city. The Exposi- gan’s style, instincts, and tion commemorated the centennial of Cleveland’s experience as a reporter were evident in his columns incorporation and was conceived as a way to energize that were beloved by his readers and admired by his a city hit hard by the Great Depression. More than colleagues. As one of the “deans” of Cleveland sports seven million people visited the Exposition during its writing, Dolgan’s skills and expertise shine through in two-summer run. his columns. Paper $24.95t isbn 978-1-60635-058-4 Paper $28.95t isbn 978-1-60635-044-7

The Washington Christmas Stories Senators from Ohio Shirley Povich Edited by Dorothy Foreword by Richard Dodge Robbins and “Pete” Peterson Kenneth Robbins This facsimile edition of This celebration of the celebrated 1954 history Christmas in the Buck- of the Senators originally eye State rejoices in the appeared as part of the many moods of yuletide popular series of major in Ohio. Including both league team histories fiction and memoir from published by G. P. Putnam. some of Ohio’s most With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the highly regarded classic and Putnam books have been described as the Cadillac contemporary authors—including Kay Boyle, Paul of the genre and are prized collectibles for baseball Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, readers and historians. Legends like Walter Johnson, and James Thurber—these tales span the generations, Gabby Street, Bucky Harris, Roger Peckinpaugh, Sam offering an entertaining perspective on midwinter Rice, Joe Cronin, and Leon “Goose” Goslin fill these holiday traditions. pages, and their colorful exploits are woven into the Cloth $29.95t isbn 978-1-60635-064-5 fabric of each season’s story. Paper $18.00t isbn 978-1-60635-052-2

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Snow Hill The Bruiser In the Shadows of the Jim Tully Ephrata Cloister With an Denise A. Seachrist Introduction by Paul J. Bauer and Mark In an appealing narra- Dawidziak tive that chronicles with Foreword by Gerald humor and insight her Early research into this fascinating community of German When The Bruiser was first Seventh-Day Baptists, published in 1936, almost Denise Seachrist tells the every reviewer praised story of Snow Hill—its Jim Tully’s gritty boxing spiritual and work life; its novel for its authenticity—a hard-earned attribute. music, writings, architec- “It’s a pip of a story because it is written by a man who ture, and crafts tradition; and its sad demise in the knows what he is writing about,” said sportswriter and waning days of the twentieth century. Snow Hill is a Guys and Dolls author Damon Runyon. “He has some long-overdue study of one of America’s experiments descriptions of ring fighting in it that literally smell of in communal living. It speaks to another time and whizzing leather. He has put bone and sinew into it, place and stands as a testament to the idealism of and atmosphere and feeling.” More than just a riveting community and the tenacity of the human spirit. picture of life in the ring, The Bruiser is a portrait of Cloth $45.00t isbn 978-1-60635-065-2 an America that Jim Tully knew from the bottom up. Paper $19.95t isbn 978-1-60635-056-0 Beggars of Life Jim Tully The Coming of With an Fabrizze Introduction by Paul A Novel J. Bauer and Mark Raymond DeCapite Dawidziak Foreword by Tony Jim Tully left his home- Ardizzone town of St. Marys, Ohio, First published in 1960, in 1901, spending most of The Coming of Fabrizze his teenage years in the has been called by the company of hoboes. Drift- New York Herald Tribune ing across the country, a “comic folklore festival he scrambled into box- about an Italian American cars, slept in hobo jungles, begged meals from back colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all doors, and haunted public libraries. He crafted these the land was a little slaphappy—and no one more so memories into a dark and astonishing chronicle of the than these transplanted countrymen of the Medicis, American underclass. Originally published in 1924, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Christopher Columbus . . . and this is the book that defined Tully’s hard-boiled style others whose hearts have belonged to Italia.” More a and set the pattern for the books that followed over legend than a realistic or sociological novel, Fabrizze the next two decades. is a celebration of the working class and a heroic tale Paper $21.95t isbn 978-1-60635-000-3 of an immigrant who succeeds by virtue of hard work and honesty. Paper $19.95t isbn 978-1-60635-028-7

38 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com A Lost King Ernest Hemingway A Novel and the Geography Raymond DeCapite of Memory Foreword by Thomas Edited by Mark DePietro Cirino and Mark P. If the mood of The Coming Ott of Fabrizze is joyous, that Hemingway’s work rever- of A Lost King is somber. berates with a blend of Each of DeCapite’s novels memory, geography, and is original in its own lessons of life revealed way, perhaps inspired by through the trauma of different moods. Orville experience. Travel was the Prescott described A Lost King as “an apologia for engine of his creative life, as the recurrent contrast dreamers. A more mature book, it deals with a more between spaces provided him with evidence of his serious theme—the relationship of a father and son . . . emerging identity as writer. The contributors to this a pathetic and perhaps tragic conflict of personalities.” collection employ an intriguing range of approaches Paper $19.95t isbn 978-1-60635-027-0 and use the concept of memory as an interpretive tool to enhance the understanding of Hemingway’s creative process. The Country Doctor Cloth $45.00s isbn 978-1-60635-042-3 Revisited A Twenty-First Century We Wear the Mask Reader Paul Laurence Dunbar Edited by Therese and the Politics of Zink Representative Reality This is a captivating collec- Edited by Willie J. tion of essays, poems, and Harrell Jr. short stories written by This collection of essays rural health care profes- on Dunbar’s work builds sionals on the experiences on the research published of doctors and nurses over the last two decades. practicing medicine in Employing an array of remote environments, such as farms, reservations, approaches to Dunbar’s and migrant camps. Alternately compelling, thought poetic creations, the provoking, and moving, they speak of the diversity contributors closely examine the self-motivated and of rural health care providers, the range of patients dynamic effect of his use of dialect, language, rhetori- served, the variety of settings that comprise the rural cal strategies, and narrative theory to promote racial United States, and the resources and challenges faced uplift. They situate Dunbar’s work in relation to the by rural health care providers today. issues of advancement popular during the Reconstruc- Paper $32.00t isbn 978-1-60635-061-4 tion era and against the racial stereotypes proliferating in the early twentieth century while demonstrating its relevance to contemporary literary studies. Cloth $45.00s isbn 978-1-60635-046-1

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Reading The Century The Antebellum Illustrated Monthly Crisis and America’s Magazine First Bohemians American Literature and Mark A. Lause Culture, 1870–1893 Amid the social and Mark J. Noonan political tensions plaguing Scribner’s Monthly: An the United States prior to Illustrated Magazine for the Civil War, the North the People, which became experienced a boom of The Century Illustrated cultural activity. Young Monthly Magazine in writers, artists, and musi- 1881, offered its predomi- cians settled in northern nantly upper-middle-class cities and called themselves readership historical and biographical essays, serial- “bohemians.” Building on midcentury abolitionist, ized novels, scientific and technological updates, and socialist, and free labor sentiments, bohemian influ- discussions of contemporary events and issues. Mark ence reached beyond the arts to political radicalism J. Noonan examines the worldview projected by the and social revolution. Focusing on the overlapping publications’ editors and how those editors sought to nature of culture and politics, historian Mark A. Lause slant issues according to their own value systems and delves into the world of antebellum bohemians and looks at how the magazine, by the mid-1890s, had lost the newspapermen who surrounded them. its dominance in the American cultural arena. Cloth $45.00s isbn 978-1-60635-033-1 Cloth $65.00t isbn 978-1-60635-063-8 A German Hurrah! Northerners at War Civil War Letters of Reflections on the Civil Friedrich Bertsch and War Home Front Wilhelm Stängel, 9th J. Matthew Gallman Ohio Infantry Translated and This collection, by one of Edited by Joseph R. America’s most distin- Reinhart guished Civil War scholars, tackles a range of home Bertsch and Stängel were front topics, from urban German immigrants fight- violence and Gettysburg’s ing in a German regiment. wartime history to entre- Their letters from the preneurial endeavors and battlefront were published the war’s economic impact. in German American newspapers. Published here for It also examines gender issues, with a fascinating the first time in English, these contemporary letters review of the career of orator Anna E. Dickinson and are historically significant and superior to accounts an insightful examination of how northerners used written decades after the events occurred. gendered notions of masculinity in rhetoric to recruit Cloth $59.00t isbn 978-1-60635-038-6 African American soldiers. Cloth $39.95t isbn 978-1-60635-045-4

40 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com The Admirable Democratic Peace in Radical Theory and Practice Staughton Lynd and Cold Edited by Steven W. War Dissent, 1945–1970 Hook Carl Mirra Historical patterns suggest Foreword by Howard that democratic govern- Zinn ments, which often fight wars against authoritarian In this first full-length regimes, maintain peaceful study of Lynd’s activist relationships with other career, Mirra charts the governments that uphold development of the New political freedoms and Left and traces Lynd’s jour- empower their civil societ- ney into the southern civil rights and anti–Vietnam ies. This timely collection of essays by leading scholars War movements during the 1960s and concludes with examines how democracies maintain relationships Lynd’s move to Niles, Ohio, in 1970 where he assisted and how democratic principles are spread throughout in the struggle to keep the steel mills open. the world. Cloth $34.95t isbn 978-1-60635-051-5 Paper $29.95s isbn 978-1-60635-031-7 Kent State and May Seeking the Sacred 4th: A Social Science in Contemporary Perspective Religious Third Edition, Revised and Expanded Architecture Edited by Thomas R. Douglas R. Hoffman Hensley and Jerry M. Foreword by Michael Lewis J. Crosbie This volume of essays seeks This is an exploration of to answer frequently raised sacredness in houses of questions while correcting worship and an examina- historical inaccuracies. The third edition includes a tion of the critical question of what architectural ele- new essay that analyzes a group of television documents contribute to make sacred space. The underly- mentaries about May 4 and an overview of the legal ing premise is that sacred space, while ephemeral, can aftermath of the shootings, including governmental be perceived and understood through a careful inves- investigations to determine responsibility and how tigation of its architecture. Illustrated with dozens of students were affected by these events. color photographs, this book presents the notion of Paper $45.00s isbn 978-1-60635-048-5 the sacred in cogent, engaging prose. Cloth $34.95t isbn 978-1-60635-047-8

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Botanical Essays Modernity and from Kent National Identity Some Botanical Features in the United States of a University Town in and East Asia, 1895– Ohio 1919 Tom S. Cooperrider Carol C. Chin Foreword by Hope Taft In her comprehensive, Afterword by David thought-provoking intel- E. Boufford lectual history of Ameri- can, Chinese, and Japanese With personal narra- thinking on moder- tives based on fifty years nity, national identity, and of experience, the author internationalism during the early twentieth century, provides fascinating botanical tales on the study and Carol Chin considers how the United States’, China’s, conservation of Ohio flora, the Herrick Magnolia and Japan’s understanding of modernity shaped, and Garden, the work of other local botanists, the protec- were shaped by, notions of their place in the world. tion of rare species and unique areas such as Kent’s Cloth $65.00s isbn 978-1-60635-041-6 tamarack bog, the discovery of lost plants, the survival of a famous cultivated tree, and the invasiveness of alien plant species. Translating Slavery, Cloth $16.95t isbn 978-1-60635-043-0 Volume 2 Ourika and Its Progeny Ohio Outback Edited by Doris Y. Learning to Love the Kadish and Françoise Great Black Swamp Massardier-Kenney Claude Clayton Volume 2 of Translating Smith Slavery contains the original Claude Smith offers a translation of Claire de vibrant, humorous portrait Duras’s Ourika as well as of life that focuses on a series of original critical individuals and events essays by twenty-first- in out-of-the-way places century scholars of translation studies. First published throughout northwest anonymously in 1823, Ourika signifies an important Ohio. The pieces in this shift from nineteenth-century notions of race, nation- book reflect a growing ality, and kinship toward the identity politics of today. curiosity and fondness for Ohio, with topics ranging Paper $29.95s isbn 978-1-60635-020-1 from the manufacturing process of NFL footballs and the anatomy of ditches to Smith’s reflections as a licensed professional boxing judge. Cloth $24.95t isbn 978-1-60635-054-6

42 www.kentstateuniversitypress.com Leading Them to the The New Ray Promised Land Bradbury Review Woodrow Wilson, Number 2 (2010) Covenant Theology, and Edited by William F. the Mexican Revolution, Touponce 1913–1915 Mark Benbow This review is designed principally to study the Through careful investiga- impact of Ray Bradbury’s tion of Wilson’s writings writings on American and correspondence, along culture. In this second with other contemporary number, scholars discuss sources, author Mark Bradbury’s view of the Benbow shows how Wilson’s role of art and aesthetics in our modern technological religious heritage shaped his worldview, including lives. Included are Bradbury’s correspondence with his assumption that nations should come together in renowned Renaissance art historian and aestheti- a covenant to form a unitary whole like the United cian Bernard Berenson, a fragment from Bradbury’s States. As a result, Wilson attempted to nurture a screenplay “The Chrysalis,” a review of Now and For- democratic state in revolutionary Mexico when rivals ever, and insightful essays by Jon Eller and Roger Lay. Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa threatened Paper $25.00t isbn 978-1-60635-037-9 U.S. interests. His efforts demonstrate the difficulty a leader has in reconciling his personal religious beliefs with his nation’s needs. Cloth $49.00s isbn 978-1-60635-025-6

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Musical Mysteries Recent Honors and Awards From Mozart to John Lennon With an award-winning list of scholarly and general-interest Albert Borowitz publications, The Kent State University Press exemplifies Excellence • USA Book News Best Books 2010, in Action, the guiding principle of Kent State University’s academic mission Finalist (True Crime)

The Last Muster Images of the Revolutionary War Christmas Stories from Ohio Generation Dorothy Dodge Robbins and Kenneth Robbins Maureen Taylor • USA Book News Best Books • USA Book News Best Books 2010, Finalist 2010, Winner (Fiction & Literature: (U.S. History) Anthology) Though Murder Has No Tongue Clyde Singer’s America The Lost Victim of Cleveland’s Mad M. J. Albacete Butcher • International Book Awards, James Jessen Badal Winner (Art: General) • USA Book News Best Books 2010, Winner (True Crime)

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Orlando M. Poe All Man! Civil War General and Great Lakes Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, Engineer and the Masculine Persona Paul Taylor David M. Earle • The Historical Society of Michigan, • International Book Awards, Winner 2010 State History Award Winner (Popular Culture) • International Book Publishers Association Ben Franklin Awards, Winner (Poetry/Literary Criticism) Wild Ohio • ForeWord Magazine Awards, Bronze The Best of Our Natural Heritage Jim McCormac and Gary Above the Thunder Meszaros Reminiscences of a Field Artilery • 2010 Ohioana Book Award, Winner Pilot in World War II (About Ohio) Raymond C. Kerns • International Book Publishers Association Ben • Army Historical Foundation, Grand Franklin Awards, Finalist (Cover Design) Prize (Autobiography/Memoir) • ForeWord Magazine Awards, Honorable Mention • International Book Awards, Finalist (Nature) (Autobiography/Memoir)

The Heart’s Truth Essays on the Art of Nursing Revelations Cortney Davis Photographs of Cleveland’s • Independent Publisher Book African American Churches Awards, Silver (Essay/Creative Fic- Michael Stephen Levy tion) • International Book Awards, Winner (Photography)

Beyond Forgetting Far from Algiers Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Djelloul Marbrook Disease • International Book Awards, Winner Holly J. Hughes (Poetry) • Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver (Aging/Death & Dying)

Hemingway’s Cuban Son Above & Beyond Reflections on the Writer by His Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Longtime Major Domo Quest for Olympic Gold René Villarreal and Raúl Vil- Bill Livingston larreal • International Book Awards,Winner • International Book Publishers Asso- (Sports: Autobiography/Biography) ciation Ben Franklin Awards, Finalist (Autobiography/Memoir)

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