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New Books for Spring & Summer 2021 Recent Awards

David M. Glantz, author of 17 books published by the University Press of Kansas, is the winner of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.

Click here to see all the books by David M. Glantz at the University Press of Kansas website.

The Property of the Nation: Lincoln’s Informer: Charles A. George Washington’s Tomb, Dana and the Inside Story of the Mount Vernon, and the Memory Union War by Carl J. Guarneri of the First President by is the winner of the Kalamazoo Matthew R. Costello is a finalist Civil War Round Table’s Albert for the George Washington Prize. Castel Book Award. 352 pages 528 pages Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2827-8, $45.00 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2846-9, $39.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2828-5, $45.00 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2847-6, $39.95

Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The The Fight for the Old North Improbable Career and Remark- State: The Civil War in North able Legacy of University of Carolina, January–May 1864 Kansas Naturalist Charles D. by Hampton Newsome is the Bunker by Chuck Warner is a winner of the Atlanta Civil War winner of the Kansas Notable Round Table’s Richard Barksdale Book Award, the Martin Kansas Harwell Award and the Emerging History Book Award, and the Civil War Best Book Award. “Looks Like a Million” Award 480 pages from the Kansas Authors Club. Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3037-0, $28.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2747-9, $28.95 228 pages Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2772-1, $45.00 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2773-8, $24.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2774-5, $24.95

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University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu HISTORY | LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES | MEMOIR NEW BOOKS The Battle for Peace The Long Road to Ending a War with the World’s Oldest Guerrilla Army Juan Manuel Santos Translated by Joe Broderick Foreword by John Kerry

successful negotiation process in the “I especially want to commend context of a nation that had all but President Juan Manuel Santos resigned itself to war and the complexities for his courageous leadership of twenty-first-century international law during four years of difficult and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that negotiations. I think this is there is no handbook for making peace, an achievement of historic he offers conflict-tested guidance on the proportions. It ultimately critical parameters, conditions, and will be good for the region, principles as well as rich detail on the as well as the people of innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just Colombia. It took a lot of solution. courage and a lot of hard work by a lot of people. And Juan Manuel Santos was president of we are very proud to have Colombia from 2010 to 2018 and winner played a modest part in his is the comprehensive account of of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. Prior to helping the dialogue go the long and difficult road traveled becoming president, Santos had a long forward.” to end the fifty-year armed conflict career of public service in Colombia, T Barack Obama with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army including as minister of foreign trade, in the world; a long war that left more minister of finance and public credit, and “President Santos’s account of than eight million victims. The obstacles minister of national defense. Santos the negotiations—frank, to peace were both large and dangerous. prepared for these roles by attending the detailed, and generous to All previous attempts to negotiate with University of Kansas, through postgraduate the FARC had failed, creating an environ- studies at the London School of Economics those who assisted inside ment where differences were irreconcilable and Harvard University, as a Fulbright and outside Colombia—has and political will was scarce. The Battle for Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and important lessons for Peace is the story not only of the six years Diplomacy, and in the Nieman Founda- peacemakers everywhere.” of negotiation and the peace process that tion for Journalism at Harvard University. Malcolm Deas, St. Antony’s transformed a country, its secret contacts, While out of government he was a journal- College, University of Oxford its international implications, and ist as deputy editor at the newspaper difficulties and achievements but also of El Tiempo. He currently is founder and the two previous decades in which chairman of the board, Compaz Center of Colombia oscillated between warlike Resources for Peace, which works for the confrontation and negotiated solution. empowerment of victims, the consolida- In The Battle for Peace Juan Manuel tion of peace, the reduction of poverty APRIL Santos shares the lessons he learned about and inequality, and the defense of the 464 pages, 32 photographs, 6 x 9 war and peace and how to build a environment in Colombia and the planet. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3066-0, $29.95(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3067-7, $29.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 1 NEW BOOKS MILITARY HISTORY | POST-SOVIET STUDIES | MEMOIR Across Cultures and Empires An Immigrant’s Odyssey from the Soviet Army to the US War in Iraq and American Citizenship Mahir Ibrahimov

“Ibrahimov has seen and n Across Cultures and Empires author peace, the fight against terrorism, and the done enough for five Mahir Ibrahimov invites the reader to role of religion. Ibrahimov’s background lifetimes. Anyone who picks Ishare his incredible journey through in both the Soviet and US militaries up Across Cultures and the world-shaking geopolitical transfor- allows him to expertly contrast the Soviet Empires will be hooked.” mations of the late twentieth and early and American experiences in Afghanistan twenty-first centuries. This is a fast-paced and Iraq. In addition, he offers provocative Michael Rubin, resident scholar, narrative based upon the author’s experi- thoughts on the future course of terrorism American Enterprise Institute, and author of Seven Pillars: ence serving in the Soviet army as an and America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, What Really Causes Instability in Azeri minority; working for the Soviet and Syria. Across Cultures and Empires, the Middle East? Communist Party and experiencing told from the perspective of a Soviet disillusionment with Communism; minority, fills important gaps in our “The story of Dr. Mahir watching the fall of the Soviet Union; knowledge of the post-Soviet reality. Ibrahimov is both a historic living through the abortive coup against and fascinating tale and Gorbachev; working in the newly inde- Mahir Ibrahimov is director of the very much worth reading. It pendent Azeri government during its Cultural and Area Studies Office, US Army offers a unique perspective unfolding conflict with Armenia in Command and General Staff College, Nagorno-Karabakh, a conflict Moscow Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. on the times and how, first purposely exacerbated as it sought to the Cold War, then the regain a measure of control over its former post–Cold War period, and republics; immigrating to the United then the War on Terror States in search of freedom; working with shaped the culture, knowl- the US Army in Iraq as an interpreter; and edge, and aspirations of one becoming a citizen of the United States man who desired to serve and continuing his work for the US Army and improve the circum- as a language and culture expert. stances around him.” Across Cultures and Empires is above all

Roderick M. Cox, colonel, an immigrant’s story. Mahir Ibrahimov’s US Army (Ret.), president and fluency in multiple languages offers the chief executive officer, Command perspective of someone who found a way and General Staff College to successfully cross boundaries amid the Foundation, Inc. fall of empire and the resulting cascade of conflicts, even as he provides the reader with insight into an era where mass migration has become a defining dynamic. In the course of telling his personal story and reflecting upon his experiences, JUNE Ibrahimov offers clear observations on the 176 pages, 25 photographs, 6 x 9 deep connections he has made about Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3223-7, $29.95(t) freedom and America’s role in the world, Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3224-4, $29.95 the different cultures he experienced, war,

2 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu MEMOIR | US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS Laughing at Myself My Education in Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies Dan Glickman

has learned over the years, which will “Our nation these days inform the understanding of citizens and desperately needs more help aspiring politicians seeking alterna- leaders like Dan Glickman: tives to the current crisis of partisanship. people whose values are Dan is convinced that the toxicity seen deeply rooted and have a in our current political culture and public sense of humor about discourse can be mitigated by the principles themselves. This book that have guided his life––a strong sense explores the secrets to his of humor (specifically an ability to laugh at himself), respect and civility for those success and should serve as who have different points of view, a belief an inspiration to those who system founded on values based on the want to be as respected and Golden Rule, and a steadfast commitment beloved as he has been.” to solve problems rather than create Walter S. Isaacson, author of here else but in America could a irreconcilable conflicts. While these values Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci Jewish kid from Kansas, son of form the backbone of Dan Glickman’s Wself-made, entrepreneurial parents personal life and professional career, “It’s been Dan’s wit and and a grandson of Russian and Eastern the real key to his success has been wisdom that has taken him European immigrants, end up as a resiliency—learning from adversity and from Wichita to Washington. congressman, secretary of agriculture, and creating opportunities where none may But it’s also been his chief lobbyist for Hollywood? have originally existed. Even though you decency, his ability to work In Laughing at Myself: My Education in never know what’s around the corner, in across political spectrums, Congress, on the Farm, and at the Movies Laughing at Myself Dan offers a bold and his awareness and Dan Glickman tells his story of a classical affirmation that America is still a nation ability to understand the family background, religious heritage, and built on opportunity and optimism. Laugh- “Midwestern-nice” roots, and how it led ing at Myself affirms readers in their desire power of humor to often to a long and successful career in public to move beyond just surviving to living diffuse, distract, and always service. Dan combines a steady sense of life with purpose, passion, and optimism. delight that has truly humor with serious reflection on his rise defined his success.” from the middle of nowhere to becoming Dan Glickman is vice president of the James Carville, Democratic a successful US politician and the first Aspen Institute, a senior fellow at the political strategist Jewish secretary of agriculture since Joseph Bipartisan Policy Center, and a board served pharaoh in biblical times. Dan member of the World Food Program USA. defines success as a willingness to listen, He served for eighteen years in the US an ability to communicate ideas, and a House of Representatives representing the yen for compromise. Dan has successfully 4th Congressional District of Kansas, as navigated the worlds of congressional the US Secretary of Agriculture from JUNE politics, cabinet-level administration, and (1995–2001), and as chairman of the 240 pages, 28 photographs, 6 x 9 the entertainment industry and offers Motion Picture Association of America, Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3213-8, $34.95(t) readers the many tricks of the trade he Inc. (2004–2010). Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3214-5, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 3 NEW BOOKS ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | US HISTORY The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson Searching for Sustainability Robert Jensen Foreword by David W. Orr

“Even for those who know n more than four decades as president Wes Jackson well, this is an of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson excellent introduction to Ibecame widely known as one of the the philosophy of one of founders of the sustainable agriculture America’s most important movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. environmental thinkers.” But Jackson’s contribution to contempo- Angus Wright, professor rary intellectual and political life goes emeritus of environmental studies, California State University, well beyond plant breeding. Ever since he Sacramento created one of the first university environ- mental studies programs in the early 1970s, “Rather than synthesizing Jackson has been exploring the human Wes’s significant body of predicaments around sustainability and justice, asking questions that pull not work, Jensen lets us look only on agriculture and ecology but also into the mind and imagina- on politics, economics, and culture. That tion that produced it. Wes work has appeared in four sole-authored Jackson’s searching and books by Jackson, but nowhere is there restless intelligence looks at an accessible summary of his key ideas. the prairie and sees the future, Robert Jensen provides a short, elegant not just as a metaphor but introduction to Jackson’s ideas on ways to as the laboratory that nature provide humanity with a truly sustainable cascading ecological and social crises, The itself produced. We are told foundation in grain agriculture, presented Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson to ‘take nature as the in a way that connects to the growing presents Jackson’s crucial insights about measure’; Jensen here tells concern about climate change and other the natural world and human societies us why.” ecological crises. Jackson’s strength has that can help provide a framework for been in generating new ideas and pushing understanding the tough decisions we Gerald Torres, professor of the envelope not only on sustainable will have to make. But just as important environmental justice, Yale School of the Environment and agriculture but also on the other dramatic is the book’s glimpse into the curiosity Yale Law School changes necessary if we are to create a that drives Jackson and the creativity sustainable and just society. This volume that distinguishes his intellectual and helps the reader to organize those exciting activist work. ideas in a way that can expand the horizons of students and lay readers as well as Robert Jensen is professor emeritus in the challenge specialists in these fields. School of Journalism at the University of FEBRUARY Texas at Austin, and author of 1 In a time when critical thinking and Plain Radical: 152 pages, 16 photographs, 5 ⁄2 x 8 Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3055-4, $26.95(t) clear understanding are desperately Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3056-1, $26.95 needed if we are to face the multiple, Planet Gracefully, among many books.

4 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | MEMOIR NEW BOOKS Hogs Are Up Stories of the Land, with Digressions Wes Jackson Foreword by Robert Jensen

ogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with the latest scholarly study and government “Hogs Are Up offers life Digressions reveals what makes report if we are to get the necessary interest stories from a rare sort of HWes Jackson tick. What kind of for people to change. The stories and intellectual in our urbanized, lessons does he draw from his unique life digressions he shares in Hogs Are Up are specialized, class-tiered experiences, and how do they shape his the fruit of a longtime effort to lay the society—one who puts his profoundly revolutionary worldview? agricultural and cultural foundation for a hands to earth and hammer, Sometimes funny, sometimes wistful, new worldview grounded in nature’s considers poetry and science always insightful, this volume demon- principles and located in rural communi- in the same thought, and strates that when telling a good story, ties able to survive through a new relation- digressions can be the main point. Born ship of humanity to the ecosphere. conducts his work from the during the Great Depression, Jackson tells homeland he refuses to stories of his youth on a diversified farm Wes Jackson is cofounder and president abandon. Wes Jackson’s in the Kansas River Valley near Topeka, emeritus of The Land Institute in Salina, wisdom will make you think, Kansas, culminating in more than forty Kansas, and the author of numerous and his voice will make you years of leadership to radically transform articles and books, including most smile.” agriculture, literally at its very roots. Wes recently Nature as Measure: The Selected Sarah Smarsh, author of Jackson draws deeply from the lessons Essays of Wes Jackson and Consulting Heartland: A Memoir of Working learned from his experience dating from the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Hard and Being Broke in the World War II to his work at The Land Approach to a New Agriculture. Richest Country on Earth and She Come By It Natural: Dolly Institute to establish a new Natural Parton and the Women Who Lived Systems Agriculture. But this book is more Her Songs than that. It includes an eclectic mix of thinkers and doers he’s met along the way. “Wes Jackson’s Hogs Are Up Wes Jackson is heavily influenced by is a rich delight, abounding the cultural legacy of grandparents, all with stories that made me four of whom were born before the Civil War began, and from his parents, who laugh, sigh, and share were born before 1900. He was born into with the person sitting next a culture of crop diversity where animals to me.” and people were out in the fields and Kristin Ohlson, author of The around. He saw the tractor arrive and the Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, horses leave. After you read Hogs Are Up: Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet Stories of the Land, with Digressions you may share his misgivings about what conventional thinkers see as “progress.” Jackson is constantly exploring the world around him and will engage anyone who can help him think about a discovery, MARCH 1 1 an experiment, or recent insight. Jackson 200 pages, 22 photographs, 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2 believes that our insights must go beyond Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3059-2, $26.95(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3060-8, $26.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 5 NEW BOOKS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | US HISTORY | MEMOIR History Shock When History Collides with Foreign Relations John Dickson

“Dickson provides us with or over twenty-five years John a history” to highlight the interaction engaging examples of how Dickson served the United States as between history and foreign relations and important historical events Fa Foreign Service officer in North to underscore the costs of not knowing can be viewed differently in America, South America, the Caribbean, the history of our partners and adversaries, the United States and in and Africa. In History Shock: When History much less our own. In both Mexico and Collides with Foreign Relations Dickson Canada in particular our lack of knowl- other countries.” offers valuable insights into the daily life edge and understanding of how our long Glenn Hastedt, professor of of a Foreign Service officer and the work history of military interventions continues political science, James Madison of representing the United States. Dickson to complicate our efforts at developing University, and author in U.S. Foreign Policy Today: American organizes History Shock around a country- mutually beneficial relationships with our Renewal? by-country series of lively personal two closest neighbors. In Nigeria and experience vignettes followed by compel- South Africa, Dickson experienced “John Dickson draws on more ling historical analyses of the ways in firsthand how the history of racism in the than a quarter century of which his inadequate understanding of United States plays out on a world stage experience as a US diplomat the host country’s history, particularly its and clouds our ability to effectively work prior history with the United States, with key African nations. Perhaps the to paint a disturbing picture combined with his lack of knowledge of starkest example of history shock, of two of how and why America’s his own nation’s history lead to history nations with deeply conflicted views of international relations are shock: where dramatically different their own histories and their shared often derailed by a lack of interpretations of history blocked diplo- history, is another country near at hand, historical knowledge and matic understanding and cooperation. Cuba. Not all of the gaps are too wide for understanding on the part John Dickson offers these “stories with bridge building; in Peru, Dickson pro- of the nation’s foreign policy vides an example of how history can be officials.” deployed to mutual advantage. Michael L. Krenn, professor of The Foreign Service has long sought to history, Appalachian State improve its training, to provide some University, and author of The form of “playbook” or “operating manual” Color of Empire: Race and with systematic case studies for its officers. American Foreign Relations In History Shock Dickson provides not only a model for such case studies but also a unique contribution of an interpre- tive framework for how to remedy this deficit, including recommendations for strengthening historical literacy in the Foreign Service.

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6 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS | GREAT PLAINS STUDIES NEW BOOKS Rural Rebellion How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold Ross Benes

fter Ross Benes left Nebraska for in reductive, one-dimensional ways, “Benes knows this Nebraska New York, he witnessed his polite Benes tells real-life stories to add depth because he’s lived it and Ahome state become synonymous and nuance to our understanding of rural processed it, as a kid, a with “Trump country.” Long dismissed as Americans’ attitudes about abortion, wannabe rock star, a college “flyover” land, the area where he was born immigration, big government, and other student, a football fan, a and raised suddenly became the subject of contentious issues. His argument and social scientist, and more. TV features and frequent opinion columns. conclusion are simple but powerful: that Now, he translates it. And he With the rural-urban divide overtaking Americans in disparate places would be does it all with an intellect the national conversation, Benes knew less hostile to one another if they just what he had to do: go home. knew each other a little better. Part that forces us to rethink our In Rural Rebellion, Benes explores memoir, journalism, and social science, suppositions about each Nebraska’s shifting political landscape to Rural Rebellion is a book for our times. other. A great read no better understand what’s plaguing America. matter where you are on the He clarifies how Nebraska defies red-state Ross Benes is the award-winning author rural-urban or red-blue stereotypes while offering readers insights of three books. He has written for divides.” into how a frontier state with a tradition Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Lincoln Scott Winter, associate professor of nonpartisanship succumbed to the Journal Star, Nation, Omaha World-Herald, of journalism, Bethel University, hardened right. Extensive interviews with Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, and more. and author of Nebrasketball: US senators, representatives, governors, A native of Brainard, Nebraska, he now Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise state lawmakers, and other power brokers cheers on the Huskers from New York. illustrate how local disputes over health- care coverage and education funding “Raised as I was in Kansas, became microcosms for our current I’ve entertained theories of national crisis. how my neighboring state Rural Rebellion is also the story of one became such a bastion of man coming to terms with both his past Trump support. This engag- and present. Benes writes about the ing book by a writer who dissonance of moving from the most rural knows Nebraska firsthand and conservative region of the country to explains why, and in so its most liberal and urban centers as they doing enriches our under- grow further apart at a critical moment in standing of rural America.” history. He seeks to bridge America’s current political divides by contrasting Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of the conservative values he learned Sociology, Princeton University growing up in a town of three hundred with those of his liberal acquaintances in New York City, where he now lives. At a time when social and political differences are too often portrayed in JANUARY stark binary terms, and people in the 256 pages, 6 x 9 Trump-supporting heartland are depicted Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3045-5, $29.95(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3046-2, $29.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 7 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | US POLITICS The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable, Jr., 1968–1984 Edited by Bill Kauffman Foreword by Albert R. Hunt

“For those who minutely arber B. Conable, Jr.—perhaps the observe Congress, Barber most respected member of Congress Conable, a Republican Bof his era—kept a frank, insightful, from upstate New York, is revealing journal available now for the remembered as a paragon of first time thanks to the efforts of editor legislative professionalism. Bill Kauffman in The Congressional Journal of Barber B. Conable, Jr., 1968–1984. Now comes a splendid coda The journal is an honest, searching, to his career of quiet sometimes humorous, occasionally excellence—his journal of cutting, and always fascinating look his years in the House. This inside Congress. Conable, a Republican might be the most illuminat- member of the House from upstate New ing politician’s journal since York, wrote perceptively about Presidents John Quincy Adams’s, which Nixon, Ford, H. W. Bush, and the leading are read today for their congressional figures of the day. For Security Trust Fund but politically almost vitriol. Conable’s will be seventeen years he wrote about the big impossible given the differing priorities of read as a window into the events as well as daily political life in an the chief protagonists, President Reagan era before polarization era that included Vietnam, Watergate, and House Speaker Tip O’Neill. In the extinguished civility.” political realignment, and major changes journal Conable pronounces the effort in entitlements and taxes, where he doomed on January 13, 1983. Two days George F. Will played a key role. later he marvels at the political and Displaying his gift for clear expression personal dexterity and skill that ended up “Barber Conable’s journal and astute insight, Conable narrates the producing a deal. tells us a great deal about machinations of major tax measures, The journal illuminates Conable’s where our country was—and trade bills, and such special interests of intellect, his commitment to his constitu- where it was heading. It his as public financing of congressional ents, and his appreciation of principled offers something that we campaigns. While he is never shy about pragmatism; his writings are in real time, seldom see in politics today: expressing personal judgments, he revels not rendered retrospectively to make honesty.” in the give and take of legislative politics. himself look better, a rarity among Conable had an acute sense of the human political legacies. John J. Pitney, Jr., author of After Reagan: Bush, Dukakis, and dynamics of legislating: In addition to the the 1988 Election tax bills he shaped and struggled with as Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, the leading Republican on the powerful among them Dispatches from the Muckdog House Ways and Means Committee, his Gazette and Look Homeward, America. He JUNE work with the 1982–1983 Social Security also wrote the screenplay for the feature 472 pages, 26 photographs, 6 x 9 Commission, led by Alan Greenspan, is a filmCopperhead. Bill lives in his native Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3209-1, $34.95(s) classic exercise. Conable thought a deal Genesee County, New York, several miles Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3210-7, $34.95 was critical for the solvency of the Social up Route 98 from the old Conable home.

8 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US POLITICS | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS The Uses and Misuses of Politics Karl Rove and the Bush Presidency William G. Mayer

he Uses and Misuses of Politics is a “An insightful examination detailed examination of the politics of the mastermind behind T of George W. Bush’s presidency, George W. Bush’s presidency. focusing on the work—and the mistakes— William G. Mayer’s grasp of of presidential political advisor Karl Rove. Karl Rove’s strategic vision, In his role as political advisor Karl Rove however flawed, is second to stands apart from his numerous counter- none. Mayer’s interpretation parts in modern American politics in three is likely to remain the major ways. The first measure of Rove’s distinctiveness is the totality of his direction authoritative account of over Bush’s political career. Simply put, the architect of a ‘durable’ George W. Bush never won an election, of Republican realignment that any kind, in which Rove was not the vanished before George W. dominant, even sole, campaign strategist. Bush even left the White A second important difference between House.”

Karl Rove and other major presidential Stephen F. Knott, author of The campaign strategists was the role that Rove Lost Soul of the American played in helping formulate policy after Presidency: The Decline into Bush became president. In fact, Rove Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal became the first presidential aide to both In The Uses and Misuses of Politics provide political advice to a sitting president William G. Mayer analyzes Karl Rove’s while at the same time controlling the performance as presidential advisor: the “This book demonstrates policy levers inside the White House, roles he played, the advice he gave, and the critical importance of especially as an advocate for his own agenda how the Republican Party fared with Rove executive leadership in in the areas of domestic policy. Finally, as its principal strategist. By offering the White House decision-making Karl Rove is noteworthy for the scope of reader a comprehensive assessment, Mayer to ensure clearly defined his ambitions: his goal for the Bush presi- provides valuable insight into the larger, responsibilities for political dency was to create a durable Republican enduring, and critical questions: What is strategists and policy majority that would dominate American the proper role of politics in the contem- makers.” politics for the next several decades. porary presidency? When does politics Meena Bose, Peter S. Kalikow Even though theories of party systems enhance a nation’s long-term welfare, and Chair in Presidential Studies and and realignments have received serious what does it detract from it? And what professor of political science, challenges, Karl Rove was a believer, positive contributions can political advisors Hofstra University which provides a key insight into how he make to a modern-day president? approached his work with the Bush presidency. Where previous realignments William G. Mayer is professor of political were the result of historical accidents and science at Northeastern University, and FEBRUARY recognized only after the fact, Karl Rove the author of numerous articles and books, 416 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3053-0, $45.00(s) believed he could engineer the next one. including The Changing American Mind. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3054-7, $45.00

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 9 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | US POLITICS Highway Robbery The Two-Decade Battle to Reform America’s Automobile Insurance System Peter Kinzler

“Peter Kinzler navigates n Highway Robbery Peter Kinzler through political and delivers a fast-paced behind-the-scenes legislative gridlock that, Iaccount of two federal legislative underwritten for decades by efforts twenty years apart—one from the the US insurance industry, political left and one from the right—to reform America’s auto insurance system has kept American citizens to make it fairer and more affordable. He and motorists from reaching explains how the legislation was designed the destination of nation- to achieve those objectives and describes wide, no-fault insurance. the political challenge of trying to Whether you take this overcome the entrenched special interest historical excursion for opposition of those who stood to lose academic purposes, or billions—trial lawyers and insurers—if simply to educate yourself the new no-fault system were adopted. on the bumps along the Highway Robbery provides readers with long-haul journey, rest both a primer on how fault and liability assured Kinzler’s style will auto insurance, no-fault, and no-fault to undermine state no-fault laws and then keep you on course and fully choice insurance policies work and who to use the weaknesses they had imple- alert behind the wheel.” benefits most from which system. Peter mented in the laws to undermine passage Kinzler, with years of experience as a of federal legislation. It also describes the Peter George Markwith, adjunct congressional staffer and in the private surprising alliance in opposition between faculty, Bentley University; Owner, Unified Business sector, is the perfect guide through these the trial bar and famed consumer advocate Technologies, LLC important policy and political fights, Ralph Nader. No-fault continues to hold enlivened with revealing firsthand sketches the promise of better compensation and “I highly recommend Peter of the legislators, staffers, academics, and dramatic premium reductions, with the Kinzler‘s book. Readers will lobbyists who played major roles in these largest savings available to those who need find it to be both fascinating attempts as well as their interplay with them most—low- and moderate-income each other. Drawing upon his decades of drivers. The most likely scenario for further and informative as to how engagement with the issues, Kinzler shows federal consideration of auto insurance public policy issues are how thoughtful and skilled members of reform would be in the context of congres- pursued in the United States Congress, good staff, and thorough sional action on universal health insurance. Congress.” academic research can lay the groundwork Herman Brandau, associate for important reform legislation; in doing Peter Kinzler served for twenty-five years general counsel of State Farm so he provides a model for restoring as a staffer in the US House of Representa- Congress’s effectiveness, whenever it tives and the US Senate, most as a sub- chooses to resume exercising its constitu- committee counsel, and for ten years in the JUNE tional authority as the legislative branch private sector as president of the Coalition 304 pages, 11 photographs, 6 x 9 Studies in Government and Public Policy of government. for Auto-Insurance Reform. He is the Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3229-9, $34.95(s) Highway Robbery details how the trial retired president of Kinzler Consulting Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3230-5, $34.95 bar used the levers of political power first and lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

10 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US POLITICS | US HISTORY | MEMOIR NEW BOOKS The Last Liberal Republican An Insider’s Perspective on Nixon’s Surprising Social Policy John Roy Price

the domestic social policy arena. Price “John Roy Price’s The Last offers rich detail on the extent to which Liberal Republican is a Nixon and his staff straddled a precarious valuable resource for anyone balance between a Democratic-controlled interested in the Nixon Congress and an increasingly powerful presidency as well as the conservative tide in Republican politics. presidential/congressional The Last Liberal Republican provides a relationship as it relates to blow-by-blow inside view of how Nixon domestic policymaking. surprised the Democrats and shocked conservatives with his ambitious proposal Price’s memoir not only for a guaranteed family income. Beyond explains the domestic policy Nixon’s surprising embrace of what we agenda during a seminal today call universal basic income, the point in American history thirty-seventh president reordered and but also shows how a vastly expanded the patchy food stamp Republican president worked he Last Liberal Republican is a program he inherited and built nutrition with a Democratic Congress memoir from one of Nixon’s senior education and children’s food services to revise and expand parts T domestic policy advisors. John Roy into schools. Richard Nixon even almost of the New Deal and Great Price—a member of the moderate wing of achieved a national health insurance Society agendas. Price’s program: fifty years ago, with a private the Republican Party, a cofounder of the ability to illustrate the Ripon Society, and an employee on Nelson sector framework as part of his generous policy battles as they played Rockefeller’s campaigns—joined Daniel benefits insurance coverage for all, Nixon out on the political front- Patrick Moynihan, and later John D. included coverage of preexisting condi- lines makes this book Ehrlichman, in the Nixon White House to tions, prescription drug coverage for all, develop domestic policies, especially on and federal subsidies for those who could essential reading.” welfare, hunger, and health. Based on not afford the premiums. Lori Cox Han, author of those policies, and the internal White The Last Liberal Republican will be a Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan House struggles around them, Price places valuable resource for presidency scholars Nixon firmly in the liberal Republican who are studying Nixon, his policies, the tradition of President Theodore Roosevelt, state of the Republican Party, and how New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Nixon years relate to the rise of the and President Eisenhower. modern conservative movement. Price makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understand- John Roy Price is the retired president and ing of the Nixon presidency. Nixon himself CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of lamented that he would be remembered Pittsburgh. During the first Nixon admin- only for Watergate and China. The Last istration he was special assistant to the MAY Liberal Republican provides firsthand president of the United States and executive 384 pages, 16 photographs, 6 x 9 secretary of the Council for Urban Affairs insight into key moments regarding Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3205-3, $39.95(s) Nixon’s political and policy challenges in and of the Council for Rural Affairs. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3206-0, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 11 INTRODUCING A NEW SERIES Studies in US Religion, Politics, and Law Leslie C. Griffin, Laura R. Olson, and Tisa Wenger, series editors

Religion, politics, and law are as tightly historical and contemporary relationships and dynamically entwined as ever in among religion, law, and politics in the contemporary American life. Instead of United States. fading away in the postindustrial world The editors are looking for innovative as many suspected, religion continues and accessibly written books that advance to exert a powerful sociocultural influ- constructive and critical conversations in ence that closely intersects with and is the fields of religious studies, political co-constituted by politics and law. These science, and legal scholarship. The editors trends create exciting new opportunities seek books that will break out of the for cross-disciplinary conversation and academic silos that prevent scholars from collaboration. Building on the existing speaking across disciplinary lines. While strengths at the University Press of not every volume will address all three Kansas, Studies in US Religion, Politics, areas, volumes in this series should show and Law is a new book series that attention to the way religion, politics, and advances a profoundly and intentionally law are co-constituted in US cultural interdisciplinary dialogue about the institutions and practices.

SERIES EDITORS Prospective authors should send proposals to the series editors and/or to David Congdon, acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kansas: [email protected]

Leslie C. Griffin is the Laura R. Olson is the Tisa Wenger is associate William S. Boyd Professor J. Strom Thurmond professor of American of Law at the University of Professor of Political religious history at Yale Nevada, Las Vegas. Science and director of Divinity School, with the PhD program in Policy courtesy appointments Studies at Clemson in American studies and University. religious studies at Yale University.

12 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US HISTORY | RELIGIOUS STUDIES NEW BOOKS John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith Patrick Lacroix

did not evaporate in the early 1960s. “John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism Rather, the civil rights movement, major has often been seen as Supreme Court rulings, events in Rome, merely a surmountable and Kennedy’s own approach to recurrent barrier to election. In fact, religious controversy reshaped the land- as Patrick Lacroix capably scape of faith and politics in the period. demonstrates, Kennedy’s Kennedy lived up to the pledge he religious engagement made to the country in Houston in 1960 supplies a missing piece to with a genuine commitment to the histories of American separation of church and state with his stance on aid to education, his willingness Catholicism and to dominant to reverse course with the Peace Corps and narratives about the decline the Agency for International Development, of the religious left and rise and his outreach to Protestant and Jewish of the religious right. clergy. The remarks he offered at the Lacroix reveals Kennedy as National Prayer Breakfast and in countless a catalyst for midcentury n John F. Kennedy and the Politics of other settings had the cumulative effect religious realignment and a Faith Patrick Lacroix explores the of diminishing long-standing anxieties figure who demands recon- Iintersection of religion and politics in about Catholic power. In his own way, sideration.” the era of Kennedy’s presidency. In doing Kennedy demanded of Protestants that Elesha Coffman, author of The so Lacroix challenges the established view they live up to their own much-vaunted Christian Century and the Rise of that the postwar religious revival disap- commitment to church-state separation. the Protestant Mainline peared when President Eisenhower left This principle could not mean one thing office and that the contentious election of for Catholics and something entirely “Lacroix has made an 1960, which carried John F. Kennedy to different for other people of faith. American important contribution to the White House, struck a definitive blow Protestants could not consistently oppose our understanding of the to anti-Catholic prejudice. Where most public funding for religious schools— Kennedy legacy and of the studies on the origins of the Christian because those schools were overwhelm- right trace its emergence to the first battles ingly Catholic—while defending religious 1960s.” of the culture wars of the late 1960s and exercises in public schools. Jason K. Duncan, author of early 1970s, echoing the Christian right’s Lacroix reveals how close the country John F. Kennedy: The Spirit of Cold War Liberalism own assertion that the “secular sixties” came, during the Kennedy administration, was a decade of waning religiosity in to a satisfactory solution to the fundamental which faith-based groups largely eschewed religious challenge of the postwar years— political engagement, Lacroix persuasively the public accommodation of pluralism— argues for the Kennedy years as an as Kennedy came to embrace a nascent important moment in the arc of American “religious left” that supported his civil religious history. Lacroix analyzes the rights bill and the nuclear test ban treaty. JANUARY numerous ways in which faith-based 272 pages, 6 x 9 Studies in US Religion, Politics, and Law engagement with politics and politicians’ Patrick Lacroix lives in Halifax, Nova Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3049-3, $34.95(s) efforts to mobilize denominational groups Scotia, Canada. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3050-9, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 13 NEW BOOKS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY | US POLITICS The Making of Reverse Discrimination How DeFunis and Bakke Bleached Racism from Equal Protection Ellen Messer-Davidow

“We can only hope that Ellen n The Making of Reverse Discrimina- and law to narrow the conflict to a single Messer-Davidow’s brilliant tion Ellen Messer-Davidow offers a white male applicant and a single white- exposé will contribute to Ifresh and incisive analysis of the legal- dominated university program to dismiss reinstituting the betrayed judicial discourse of DeFunis v. Odegaard the historical, sociological, statistical, and imperative of dismantling (1974) and Regents of the University of experiential facts of “systemic racism” California v. Bakke (1978), the first two and thereby to assemble “reverse discrimi- ongoing white supremacy cases challenging race-conscious admis- nation” as a new object of legal analysis. and one day achieving a sions to professional schools to reach the In exposing the discursive mechanisms racially egalitarian society.” US Supreme Court. While the voluminous that marginalized the interests of applicants Charles W. Mills, distinguished literature on DeFunis and Bakke has and communities of color, Messer-Davidow professor of philosophy at the focused on the Supreme Court’s far from demonstrates that the construction of Graduate Center, City University of New York definitive answers to important constitu- facts, the reasoning by precedent, and the tional questions, Messer-Davidow closely invocation of constitutional principles examines each case from beginning to deserve more scrutiny than they have “The history of affirmative end. She investigates the social surrounds received in the scholarly literature. action efforts to redress where the cases incubated, their tours Although facts, precedents, and principles racial imbalances in college through the courts, and their aftereffects. are said to bring stability and equity to admissions has been Her analysis shows how lawyers and the law, Messer-Davidow argues that the chronicled before, but never judges used the mechanisms of language white-centered narratives of DeFunis and with the massive detail and Bakke not only bleached the color from theoretical sophistication equal protection but also served as the Ellen Messer-Davidow template for the dozens of anti–affirmative deploys in this important action projects—lawsuits, voter referenda, new book.” executive orders—that conservative movement organizations mounted in the Stanley Fish, Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor following years. of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University Ellen Messer-Davidow is professor of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature; and American JUNE Studies. She is the author of Disciplining 392 pages, 6 x 9 Feminism: From Social Activism to Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3220-6, $70.00(s) Academic Discourse and coeditor of Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3221-3, $29.95(s) Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3222-0, $29.95 in Disciplinarity.

14 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY | BLACK STUDIES NEW BOOKS The Journey to Separate but Equal Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era Jack M. Beermann

n The Journey to Separate but Equal: ruling in Hall overturned the application “Thanks to this book, the Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial of an 1869 Louisiana statute prohibiting little-remembered Supreme IJustice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack racial segregation in Madame Decuir’s case Court rejection of state Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. because of the status of the Mississippi antidiscrimination laws and Decuir, the post–Civil War US Supreme River as a mode of interstate commerce. the valiant but unsuccessful Court took its first step toward perpetuat- The decision represents a crucial precedent efforts of Josephine Decuir ing the subjugation of the non-White that established the legal groundwork for and her lawyers take their population of the United States by the entrenchment of Jim Crow in the law rightful place in the crucial actively preventing a Southern state from of the United States, leading directly to prohibiting segregation on a riverboat in the Court’s adoption of “separate but reckoning with vigorous the coasting trade on the Mississippi equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson. federal destruction of equal River. The Journey to Separate but Equal treatment in the United offers the first complete exploration of Jack M. Beermann is professor of law and States. Read this book to Hall v. Decuir, with an in-depth look at the Harry Elwood Warren Scholar, Boston understand how ‘technicali- case’s record; the lives of the parties, University School of Law, and the author ties’ of inheritance law lawyers, and judges; and the case’s social of numerous articles on the legal history practice, the ‘dormant context in 1870s Louisiana. The book of the civil rights era. Commerce Clause,’ and centers around the remarkable story of Southern transportation Madame Josephine Decuir and the lawsuit policies mixed with White she pursued because she had been status desires to block equal illegally barred from the cabin reserved treatment laws and to create for White women on the Governor Allen the ‘separate but equal’ riverboat. The drama of Madame Decuir’s fight regime.” against segregation’s denial of her dignity Martha Minow, 300th as a human and particularly as a woman Anniversary University Professor and former dean of Harvard Law enriches our understanding of the School, and author of In Brown’s Reconstruction era, especially in Louisiana, Wake: Legacies of America’s including political and legal changes that Educational Landmark occurred during that time and the plight of people of color who were freed from slavery but denied their dignity and rights as American citizens. Hall v. Decuir spanned the pivotal period of 1872–1878, during which White segregationist APRIL Democrats “redeemed” the South from 256 pages, 1 map, 6 x 9 Republican control. The Supreme Court’s Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3183-4, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3184-1, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 15 NEW BOOKS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY | US POLITICS Roe v. Wade The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History Third Updated Edition

N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer

Praise for the first edition: ew Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, “A page-turner that is also Fvitriolic debate, and even violence as very scholarly, this remark- Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it able book should be popular remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the United States and a pivot upon with lay readers and law which much of our politics turns. With scholars alike.” that in mind, N. E. H. Hull and Peter Publishers Weekly Charles Hoffer have taken stock of the abortion debates, controversies, and cases “While there are hundreds of that have emerged during the past decade books on various aspects of in order to update their best-selling book abortion in society, this one on this landmark case. does an unusually good job As with the first two editions, this of covering the full legal book details the case’s historical back- history from colonial times ground; highlights Roe v. Wade’s core to the present. Very readable issues, essential personalities, and key dealt with state laws—Texas and Louisiana, and highly recommended.” precedents; tracks the case’s path through respectively—designed to limit access to the courts; clarifies the jurisprudence abortion by requiring doctors performing Library Journal behind the Court’s ruling in Roe; assesses abortions to have admission privileges at the impact of the presidential elections of a state-authorized hospital within thirty “Skillfully marshals an George W. Bush and Barack Obama along miles of the abortion clinic. In both cases impressive amount of with the confirmations of Chief Justice the Court ruled the laws unconstitutional, material from social history, John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and thus handing abortion rights’ activists key legal history, and politics.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor; and gauges the victories in the face of an increasingly Washington Post Book World case’s impact on American society and conservative Court. The new chapters subsequent challenges to it in Webster v. also cover the confirmations of Justices Reproductive Health Services (1989), Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), and Kavanaugh as well as the heated political Gonzales v. Carhart (2007). This third environment surrounding the Court in updated edition also adds two completely the age of Trump. new chapters covering abortion politics FEBRUARY and legal battles in Obama’s second term N. E. H. Hull is distinguished professor 1 1 432 pages, 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄2 and Donald J. Trump’s first term. emerita of law at Rutgers Law School. Landmark Law Cases and The new material covers two important American Society cases in detail: Whole Woman’s Health v. Peter Charles Hoffer Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3245-9, $65.00(s) is distinguished Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3194-0, $26.95(s) Hellerstedt (2016) and June Medical research professor of history at the Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3195-7, $26.95 Services, LLC v. Russo (2020). The cases University of Georgia.

16 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS American by Birth Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov

merican by Birth explores the history “We have long needed a and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and biography of Wong Kim Ark, Athe 1898 Supreme Court case that and American by Birth bears his name, which established the delivers. It’s the history of automatic citizenship of individuals born American citizenship, the within the geographic boundaries of the tireless efforts of one man United States. In the late nineteenth century, much like the present, the United States and his lawyers to challenge was a difficult, and at times threatening, cruel and racist policies, and environment for people of color. Chinese Wong Kim Ark’s continuing immigrants, invited into the United States legacy today. Nackenoff in the 1850s and 1860s as laborers and and Novkov’s timely book is merchants, faced a wave of hostility that a must-read!” played out in organized private violence, Erika Lee, author of America for discriminatory state laws, and increasing Americans: A History of congressional efforts to throttle immigra- Xenophobia in the United States tion and remove many long-term residents. and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the The federal courts, backed by the Supreme University of Minnesota. Court, supervised the development of an increasingly restrictive and exclusionary and in the United States back to well “Carol Nackenoff and Julie immigration regime that targeted Chinese before the American Civil War, the Supreme people. This was the situation faced by Court’s ruling was significant because it Novkov deftly trace the Wong Kim Ark, who had been born in both inscribed the principle in constitu- multiple origins of birthright San Francisco in the 1870s and who earned tional terms and clarified that it extended citizenship and its sprawling his living as a cook. Like many members even to the children of immigrants who consequences for American of the Chinese community in the American were legally barred from becoming citizens. society.” West he maintained ties to China. He American by Birth is a richly detailed Beth Lew-Williams, associate traveled there more than once, carrying account of the case and its implications in professor of history, Princeton required re-entry documents, but when he the ongoing conflicts over race and immi- University and author of The attempted to return to the United States gration in US history; it also includes a Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the after a journey from 1894 to 1895, he was discussion of current controversies over Alien in America refused entry and detained. Protesting limiting the scope of birthright citizenship. that he was a citizen and therefore entitled to come home, he challenged the admin- Carol Nackenoff is the Richter Professor istrative decision in court. Remarkably, of Political Science at Swarthmore College. the Supreme Court granted him victory. This victory was important for Wong Julie Novkov is professor of political Kim Ark, for the ethnic Chinese commu- science and women’s, gender, and nity in the United States, and for all sexuality studies at the University at MAY immigrant communities then and to this Albany, State University of New York. 304 pages, 8 photographs, 6 x 9 day. Though the principle had links to Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3192-6, $37.50(s) seventeenth-century English common law Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3193-3, $37.50

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 17 NEW BOOKS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | LAW STUDIES | US HISTORY Courts at War Executive Power, Judicial Intervention, and Enemy Combatant Policies since 9/11 Gregory Burnep

“An important contribution to n June 28, 2004, the US Supreme the treatment of individuals suspected of the literature on military Court broke with a long-standing posing a threat to the United States. detention in the post-9/11 Otradition of deference to the Courts at War goes beyond the post- era. Professor Burnep executive in wartime national security 9/11 armed conflict. It analyzes the persuasively describes the cases and became an important actor in changes in the position of courts vis-à-vis impact of litigation and an armed conflict. By declining to the other branches of government (courts rubber-stamp the executive branch’s in conflict with the executive, the legisla- courts on the United States’ actions, the judiciary would henceforth ture, or both)—even courts in conflict confinement and treatment of play a major role in shaping national with other courts. The consequences alleged enemy combatants.” security policies in the war on terror. included increased checks on presidential Jonathan Hafetz, professor of After the September 11, 2001, terrorist authority and greater levels of due process law, Seton Hall Law School attacks, lawyers, lawsuits, and court for suspected belligerents held in US decisions have repeatedly altered the custody. But Burnep also shows that there “This is an exceptionally landscape in the policy areas of detention are unintended consequences that well-written book that will and military commissions. In Courts at accompany these developments. be a valuable source for War Gregory Burnep explores how, after Burnep innovatively applies an scholars, students, and, 9/11, lawyers and judges became deeply interbranch perspective to persuasively indeed, anyone interested in involved in an armed conflict, with argue that litigation and judicial involve- these issues.” important consequences for presidential ment have important implications for authority, the separation of powers, and changing patterns of policy development Chris Edelson, author of Power without Constraint: The Post- in a wide range of national security policy 9/11 Presidency and National areas, including surveillance, interroga- Security tion, targeted killings, and President Trump’s travel ban.

Gregory Burnep is assistant professor of political science, College of the Holy Cross.

JANUARY 248 pages, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3047-9, $37.50(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3048-6, $37.50

18 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS The Fourth Branch Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook

consistent with the history and traditions “This unflinching call for a of American constitutionalism. Far more formal reordering of consti- than that, however, the addition of a tutional authority seeks to fourth branch could enhance American reclaim the value of a constitutionalism by making the separa- commercial republic of an tion of powers work better, increasing the administrative arm with likelihood that deliberative lawmaking integrity of its own. Acutely will occur, strengthening civic capacity attuned to the degraded and public engagement in governance, and improving both accountability and state in which we find coordination in the administrative state. administration today, By stressing that the administrative Cook jolts our faith in the state in its current form is both biased adaptability of the three- toward business and seriously undermined branch design of American by subordination to the three constitutional government and dispels branches, Cook contends that neither the illusion that we can abandoning the administrative state nor accommodate administrative n The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing more deeply constitutionalizing or authority by simply jerry- the Administrative State for the democratizing it within the existing rigging the Constitution of constitutional structure is sufficient to ICommercial Republic Brian J. Cook the framers.” confronts head-on the accumulating fully legitimate and capitalize on adminis- Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah derangements in the American constitu- trative power to serve the public interest. Perit Professor of Political and tional system and how the administrative Rather, Cook argues that it is imperative Social Science, Yale University state has contributed to the problems, to confront the reality that a fundamental how it has been a key force in addressing reordering of constitutional arrangements “Cook’s project is a must-read the troubles, and how it can be reformed is necessary if the American commercial for scholars, policy makers, to serve the system better. The Fourth republic is to recover from its growing and jurists alike.” Branch is anchored in a powerful theory disorder and progress further toward its of regime design that guides a freshly aspirations of liberal justice and limited Jon Michaels, professor of law, University of California, Los comprehensive account of the historical but vigorous self-rule. Angeles, and author of Constitu- development of successive political tional Coup: Privatization’s Threat economies and administrative states in the Brian J. Cook is professor emeritus of to the American Republic United States and provides the normative public administration and policy, Virginia grounding for more far-reaching constitu- Tech. He is the author of numerous tional change. Cook calls for a decisive, books, including Democracy and Adminis- pattern-breaking response in the form of a tration: Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas and the MAY constitutional redesign to accommodate a Challenges of Public Management and 288 pages, 6 x 9 fourth branch, an administrative branch. Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Recon- Studies in Government and Public Policy The Fourth Branch shows that the creation sidering the Role of Public Administration Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3207-7, $37.50(s) of a fourth administrative branch is in American Politics, Second Edition. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3208-4, $37.50

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 19 NEW BOOKS PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US POLITICS | US HISTORY The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump Edited by Paul E. Rutledge and Chapman Rackaway

“With its balanced, evidence- he Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. nity to govern and the effect Trump has based approach, this book is Trump explores the myriad ways in had on US political institutions: the required reading for anyone T which candidate, and then president, legislative branch, the federal courts, the seeking a top-notch scholarly Trump exemplifies a nontraditional bureaucracy, the media, and organized analysis of the Trump version of US politics. As a candidate he interest groups. The final section examines eschewed the norms of campaign proce- Trump and public policy, with a focus on administration.” dure, and, in the worst cases, human his disruptive version of foreign policy Jeffrey Crouch, coauthor of The decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, and his use of the domestic budget as a Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional take-no-prisoners approach that appealed political football, such as the constitution- Government to those who felt marginalized in a changing ally questionable sequestration and society. Though the constitutional design redirection of budgetary funds provided “For a serious and level-headed of the presidency has seen political outsiders for defense to the building of the border analysis of the Trump era rise to the office of the presidency before wall and his penchant for deficit spending, and maintain stability, never before has a making Trump the greatest deficit spender and how it fits into the candidate so alien to political norms risen in the history of the republic. larger framework of modern to the highest office. The presidency of presidential studies, this Donald Trump represents the most signifi- Paul E. Rutledge is associate professor of volume is highly recom- cant challenge in the history of the United political science, University of West Georgia. mended.” States to whether the constitutional Mark J. Rozell, coauthor of design and boundaries on the office of the Chapman Rackaway is professor of Executive Privilege: Presidential presidency can survive the test of an political science, University of West Georgia. Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, occupant who is antithetical to everything Fourth Edition, Revised and in its past. The editors and their contribu- Updated tors highlight how Trump’s actions present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office. The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism JUNE that helped him get elected. The second 432 pages, 30 illustrations, 6 x 9 section focuses on the how the election Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3231-2, $80.00(s) results and the associated political context Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3232-9, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3233-6, $34.95 have affected President Trump’s opportu-

20 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS The Rhetoric of Donald Trump Nationalist Populism and American Democracy Robert C. Rowland

he Rhetoric of Donald Trump identi- “The author provides a fies and analyzes the nationalist and refreshingly clear-eyed, T populist themes that dominate the deeply informed, and rhetoric of President Trump and links rigorously argued examina- those themes to a persona that has evolved tion of the phenomenon from celebrity outsider to presidential that is Donald Trump. strongman. In the process Robert C. Rowland is especially helpful Rowland explains how the nationalist in exploring the relationship populism and strongman persona in turn demands a vernacular rhetorical style between the particulars of unlike any previous modern president—a Trump’s language practices style that makes no attempt to lay out a and their more general case, requires constant lies, and breaks implications for populism, every norm for how a presidential candidate democracy, and the American or president should talk. In stark contrast, presidency. This is a work of our most effective presidents have used singular achievement.”

rhetoric to present a positive vision of Stephen Howard Browne, what the nation could achieve. The three professor of communication arts most effective presidential uses of rhetoric and sciences, Pennsylvania State in the past century—FDR, Reagan, and negative emotions, especially fear and University, and author of The Obama—all presented a coherent ideo- hate. It further reveals how Trump sustains First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of logical message that, while focused on those strong visceral reactions with his use the Republic problems of the moment, was also rooted of Twitter to make the rally atmosphere a in a fundamental optimism. In contrast, daily reality for his supporters, a prime “Rowland also points to the Trump’s message is fundamentally negative. example being the Coronavirus Task Force grave dangers that Trump’s The Rhetoric of Donald Trump explores briefings, which he transformed from an how the nation could so abruptly shift exercise in desperately needed public rhetoric pose to American from a president such as Barack Obama, health education into a partisan rally. democracy.” who emphasized the audacity of hope, to The Rhetoric of Donald Trump is Denise M. Bostdorff, author of one who in his inaugural address spoke essential reading for scholars, students, The Presidency and the Rhetoric about “American carnage.” At its core, and the informed citizen to understand of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold Trump’s message is well designed to appeal how Trump’s rhetoric of nationalist War Call to Arms to voters with an authoritarian personality populism with a strongman persona structure, especially in the white working- undermines basic principles at the heart class, who feel threatened by the pace of of American democracy. societal change, especially demographic change. Rowland’s work illustrates how Robert C. Rowland is professor of President Trump’s ceremonial speeches communication studies, University of violate norms calling for a message of Kansas, and coauthor of Reagan at APRIL national unity and instead present a Westminster: Foreshadowing the End of the 280 pages, 6 x 9 divisive message designed to create strongly Cold War. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3196-4, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3197-1, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 21 NEW BOOKS PRESIDENCY STUDIES | US HISTORY | WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES Southern First Ladies Culture and Place in White House History Edited by Katherine A. S. Sibley

“This unique study encourages outhern First Ladies explores the nial customs and hospitality demanded by all of us to examine the ways in which geographical and notions of Southern white womanhood, influence of place in the Scultural backgrounds molded a some of which they successfully resisted evolution of the role of first group of influential first ladies. The or subverted, early first ladies including lady. With varying degrees of contributors to this volume use the lens Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, of “Southernness” to define and better Julia Tyler, and Sarah Polk were also ‘Southernness,’ the women understand the cultural attributes, shaped by racially based societal and included in this volume characteristics, actions, and activism of cultural constraints typical of the eigh- provide wonderful examples seventeen first ladies from Martha teenth and nineteenth centuries, some of of the subtle and sometimes Washington to Laura Bush. which have persisted to the present day. not-so-subtle impact of The first ladies defined in this volume The first nine women in this volume, locality on national institu- as Southern were either all born in the from Martha Washington to Julia Grant, tions.” South—specifically, the former states of all enslaved others during their lives, Mary C. Brennan, dean of the the Confederacy or their slaveholding inside or outside the White House. College of Liberal Arts, Texas neighbors like Missouri—or else lived in Among the seven first ladies in the book’s State University, and author of those states for a significant portion of last section, Ellen Wilson, for example, Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady their adult lives (women like Julia Tyler, was profoundly influenced by the reform- Hillary Clinton, and Barbara Bush). ist ethos of the Progressive Era and set an “The book is well researched, Southern climes indelibly shaped these example for activism that five of her richly detailed, and elegantly women and, in turn, a number of enduring Southern successors—Lady Bird Johnson, written. Southern First White House traditions. Along with the Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, Hillary Ladies is a welcome addition standards of proper behavior and ceremo- Clinton, and Laura Bush—all emulated. to the growing scholarship By contrast, Ellen’s immediate successor in on presidents’ wives.” the White House, Edith Wilson, enthusi- astically celebrated the “Lost Cause.” Jill Abraham Hummer, author of First Ladies and American Southern First Ladies is the first volume Women: In Politics and at Home to comprehensively emphasize the significance of Southernness and a Southern background in the history and work of first ladies, and Southernness’ long-standing influence for the develop- ment of this position in the White House as well as outside of it.

Katherine A. S. Sibley is professor of history and director of the American studies program at Saint Joseph’s University, and is the author of First Lady JANUARY Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and 440 pages, 25 photographs, 6 x 9 Controversy. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3043-1, $39.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3044-8, $39.95

22 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu PRESIDENCY STUDIES | CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Progressivism Kevin J. Burns

n William Howard Taft’s Constitutional Although Taft’s efforts to promote “A comprehensive and Progressivism Kevin J. Burns makes a significant policy-level reforms attest to convincing study of Taft’s Icompelling case that Taft’s devotion his progressivism, his major contribution progressive credentials. Taft to American political thought is his to the Constitution of 1787 contributed as president and as chief to his progressivism. In contrast to the understanding of the US Constitution as justice vindicated the majority of scholarship, which has viewed a fundamental law, not a policy-oriented state-building capacity of Taft as a reactionary conservative because document. In many ways Taft can be of his constitutionalism, Burns explores thought of as an originalist, yet his the federal government to the ways Taft’s commitment to both the originalism was marked by a belief in express and institute an Constitution and progressivism drove his robust national powers. Taft’s constitu- articulate national will political career and the decisions he made tionalism remains relevant because while through a reformed Republi- as president and chief justice. Taft saw the his principles seem foreign to modern can Party.” Constitution playing a positive role in legal discourse, his constitutional vision Eldon J. Eisenach, professor of American political life, recognizing that it offers an alternative to contemporary political science emeritus, created a national government strong political divisions by combining political University of Tulsa enough to enact broad progressive reforms. progressivism-liberalism with constitu- In reevaluating Taft’s career, Burns tional conservatism. “This is an important highlights how Taft rejected the “laisser contribution to understanding faire school,” which taught that “the Kevin J. Burns is an assistant professor of both Taft and Progressive Government ought to do nothing but run political science and economics, Chris- Era politics.” a police force.” Recognizing that the tendom College, Front Royal, Virginia, Peri E. Arnold, professor of massive industrial changes following the and coeditor of Readings in American political science emeritus, Civil War had created a plethora of Government, Tenth Edition. University of Notre Dame, and socioeconomic ills, Taft worked to expand author of Remaking the Presi- the national government’s initiatives in the dency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1910–1916 fields of trust-busting, land conservation, tariff reform, railroad regulations, and worker safety laws. Burns offers a fuller understanding of Taft and his political project by emphasizing Taft’s belief that the Constitution could play a constructive role in American political life by empow- ering the government to act and by undergirding and protecting the reform legislation the government implemented. Moreover, Taft recognized that if the Constitution could come to the aid of progressivism, political reform might also MAY redound to the benefit of the Constitution 248 pages, 6 x 9 by showing its continued relevance and American Political Thought Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3211-4, $37.50(s) workability in modern America. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3212-1, $37.50

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 23 NEW BOOKS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES | US HISTORY Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution Peter Charles Hoffer

“Peter Charles Hoffer takes aniel Webster and the Unfinished antebellum eras or it would become the reader on a fascinating Constitution reveals Webster as the irrelevant. As Chief Justice Marshall tour of a central figure in Dforemost constitutional lawyer of explained in Bank of the United States v. early American constitu- his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a Deveaux (1809): “A constitution, from its tional development. Daniel persuasive case that Webster was more nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly framers cannot perceive minute distinc- Webster and the Unfinished from his hardscrabble New Hampshire tions which arise in the progress of the Constitution details the origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the nation, and therefore confine it to the constitutional, political, and ways in which Webster was an innovative establishment of broad and general historical significance of jurist. While Chief Justice John Marshall principles.” But were these “broad and Webster’s speeches and gets credit for much of our early constitu- general principles” themselves fixed? For writings in ways that high- tional jurisprudence, in fact in a series of Webster there were landmarks: the light how the Massachusetts key cases Marshall simply borrowed Contract Clause and the Commerce Whig, allied with John Webster’s oral and written arguments. Clause. While others were exploring and Marshall and Joseph Story, For Webster, Marshall, and many surveying the Northwest Territory and helped convert an ambigu- lawyers and jurists of their day, profes- the Louisiana Purchase, Webster set out ous Constitution into the sions of adherence to the Constitution to map the unmarked spaces in the fundamental law of the were universal. Yet they knew that the constitutional and legal landscape. United States.” Constitution could not be fixed in time; Peter Charles Hoffer provides an its text needed to be read in light of the insightful and timely study of how Webster’s Mark A. Graber, regents rapidly transforming early republic and analysis of three key constitutional issues professor, University of Maryland, Francis King Carey is relevant to today’s constitutional conflicts: School of Law the relationship between law and politics, between public policy and private rights, “Hoffer’s new book offers a and between the federal government and timely perspective on the states, all of which remain contentious Webster and his commitment in our constitutional jurisprudence and crucial to our constitutional order. to the rule of law.”

Daniel Walker Howe, professor Peter Charles Hoffer is distinguished emeritus of history, University of research professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles Georgia, and the author of numerous publications, including Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review; The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper’s Trial for APRIL Seditious Libel; and, with Williamjames 208 pages, 6 x 9 Hull Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull, The American Political Thought Supreme Court: An Essential History, Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3200-8, $39.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3201-5, $39.95 Second Edition, all from Kansas.

24 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | US POLITICS NEW BOOKS The American Road Highways and American Political Development, 1891–1956 Katherine M. Johnson

manifested itself in the legislative history, “This book is a powerful physical dimensions, and geographical addition towards our reach of the emerging highway system. understanding of modern The American Road reveals that all of American state building the major highway legislation approved during the twentieth by Congress from 1916 to 1941 was century.” collectively developed and advanced by Kimberley Johnson, professor state and federal highway bureaucrats of social and cultural analysis, drawing on the new authority conferred New York University by the system of federal grants-in-aid, which required state legislatures to provide “The American Road offers a a state matching grant and local govern- powerful new perspective for ments to relinquish control over decisions understanding how the of location and design. The capacity to n The American Road Katherine M. advance their policy aims as both the automobile came to define Johnson develops a bold new theory advice of experts and the will of the states American life. A must-read Ifor how the American highway system not only secured the new highway program for transportation scholars has taken on such outsized scale and against renewed opposition in Congress and for students of American complexity by emphasizing the emergence in the 1920s but also won the strong political development.” of a powerful administrative apparatus in support of the motor vehicle industry and Margaret Weir, Wilson the American federal system. Established set the stage for even more impressive Professor of Political Science in 1914 expressly to intervene in the policy gains of the 1930s when highways and International and Public congressional debates of the era, the became the largest category of federal Affairs, Brown University American highway bureaucracy consisted emergency public works. That collective of forty-eight state highway officials authority, however, required a high acting in and through their self-organized threshold of consensus to secure and association, the American Association of maintain, producing not just a narrow State Highway Officials. Johnson’s central one-size-fits-all approach to technical argument is that this new institution issues but also a striking incapacity to occupied a similar position relative to the respond to changing conditions. Johnson American state as political parties and completes her compelling narrative by courts did. The capacity to organize across identifying the source of the interstate a complex constitutional order enabled it highway plan, first proposed in 1939 and to control the purpose and allocation of finally funded in 1956, in the internal federal highway aid for the better part of dynamics of and external threats to that the twentieth century. Johnson investigates extraconstitutional authority. JUNE this new conception of the American 232 pages, 4 maps, 6 x 9 highway bureaucracy, showing specifically Katherine M. Johnson is associate Studies in Government and Public Policy where and how that extraconstitutional professor of geography, University of Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3241-1, $39.95(s) authority emerged, expanded, and Northern Colorado. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3242-8, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 25 NEW BOOKS MILITARY HISTORY | INDIA HISTORY A Military History of India since 1972 Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict Arjun Subramaniam

“In combination with Arjun Military History of India since 1972 Subramaniam’s earlier is a definitive work of military volume on 1947–1971, this Ahistory that gives the Indian military book is a much-needed its rightful place as a key contributor to survey of India’s military Indian democracy. Arjun Subramaniam offers an engaging narrative that combines history since independence. superb storytelling with the academic The paucity of available rigor of deep research and analysis. It is a official sources means that comprehensive account of India’s resolute, the real strength of the work responsible, and restrained use of force as is the interviews and an instrument of statecraft and how the correspondence with senior military has played an essential role in commanders in all three securing the country’s democratic tradition Indian armed forces. It is a along with its rise as an economic and major contribution to the demographic power. contemporary military This book is also about how the Indian history of India.” nation-state and its armed forces have narrative with a practitioner’s insights coped with the changing contours of amplified by interviews and conversations Alan Jeffreys, author of Approach to Battle: Training the modern conflict in the decades since with almost a hundred serving and retired Indian Army during the Second 1972. These include the 2016 “surgical” officers, including former chiefs from all World War or cross-border strikes across the Line of three armed forces for an in-depth Control with Pakistan by the Indian exploration of land, air, and naval “Subramaniam brings to the Army’s Special Forces, the face-offs with operations. The book offers the only subject not only extensive the Chinese at Doklam in 2017 and in comprehensive examination of war and research but also an insider’s Ladakh in 2020, the preemptive punitive conflict in contemporary India. recollections and insights.” strikes by the Indian Air Force against terrorist camps in Pakistan in 2019, and Arjun Subramaniam is a retired air vice Sir Lawrence Freedman, the large-scale aerial engagement between marshal from the Indian Air Force. In professor emeritus of war studies, King’s College London, and the Indian Air Force and the Pakistan Air addition to serving as a mentor and author of The Future of War: Force the following day. These conflicts academic advisor at India’s National A History also include the long-running insurgencies Defence College, he has been a visiting in the northeast, terrorism and proxy war fellow at the Harvard Asia Center at in Jammu and Kashmir, separatist violence Oxford University, and at Northeastern MAY 456 pages, 46 photographs, in Punjab, and the Indian Peace Keeping University. He has taught at Tufts Univer- 1 1 22 maps, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 Force’s intervention in Sri Lanka. The sity’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplo- Modern War Studies author also includes a chapter on the macy and several universities in India. He Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3198-8, $49.95(s) development of India’s nuclear capabilities. is the author of India’s Wars: A Military Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3199-5, $49.95 Arjun Subramaniam enlivens the History, 1947–1971.

26 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | CIVIL WAR NEW BOOKS Useful Captives The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts Edited by Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote

seful Captives: The Role of POWs in border in the late eighteenth century, the “This book is a masterpiece American Military Conflicts is a American Revolution, the Civil War, the of contemporary scholarship. Uwide-ranging investigation of the Great War, World War II, to twenty-first It does what Daniel Krebs integral role prisoners of war (POWs) century US drone warfare. This long and Lorien Foote say it is have played in the economic, cultural, historical horizon enables the reader to intended to do: examine the go beyond the prison camp experience of political, and military aspects of American less-traveled roads with new warfare. In Useful Captives volume editors POWs to better understand the many understandings/visions of Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote and their ways they influence the nature and the American POW experience. contributors explore the wide range of course of military conflict. No one can ask for more roles that captives play in times of Useful Captives shows the vital role conflict: hostages used to negotiate vital that prisoners of war play in American than that. I recommend it points of contention between combatants, warfare and reveals the cultural contexts for every collection of consumers, laborers, propaganda tools, of warfare, the shaping and altering of American POW history.” objects of indoctrination, proof of military military policies, the process of state- Robert C. Doyle, author of success, symbols, political instruments, building, the impacts upon the economy Voices from Captivity: Interpreting exemplars of manhood ideals, loyal and and environment of the conflict zone, the American POW Narrative disloyal soldiers, and agents of change in their special place in propaganda and society. political symbolism, and the importance “Useful Captives, in clear and The book’s eleven chapters cover of public history in shaping national convincing fashion, demon- conflicts involving Americans, ranging memory. strates how prisoners of war from colonial warfare on the Creek-Georgia have impacted the cultural, Daniel Krebs is associate professor of political, and tactical history, University of Louisville, and, dimensions of American during the 2020–2021 academic year, military conflicts. Ranging Harold Keith Johnson Chair in Military from the colonial era to the History, US Army War College. He is the War on Terror, the contribu- author of A Generous and Merciful Enemy: tors have produced one of Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution. the most important studies on war captives in decades.” Lorien Foote is the Patricia and Bookman Glenn Robins, author of The Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. University, and is the author of The Robinson Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy.

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www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 27 INTRODUCING A NEW SERIES Studies in Civil-Military Relations William A. Taylor, series editor

SERIES EDITOR This series will publish original manu- best and newest research on civil-military scripts, imparting a variety of valuable relations across a broad spectrum of case perspectives, that analyze the myriad studies and comparative frameworks. interactions between governments, The editorial approach will be as inclusive militaries, and societies. The series will as possible, with the common theme be global in scope, multidisciplinary in being a work’s special contribution to an approach, and accessible in presentation, informed understanding of civil-military providing an intellectual home for the relations.

William A. Taylor is associate professor of security studies at Angelo State University. A graduate of the US Naval Academy, he holds an MA in history from the University of Maryland, an MA in national security studies from Georgetown University, and a PhD in history from George Washington University. He is the author of Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

(University Press of Kansas) of Defense US Department and Every Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World studies in War II (Texas A&M Univer- CMR Send inquiries and proposals to sity Press). civil-military relations [email protected].

28 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | MILITARY HISTORY NEW BOOKS The United States Army and the Making of America From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 Robert Wooster

he United States Army and the Making “Robert Wooster has gone of America: From Confederation to beyond his remarkable The T Empire, 1775–1903 is the story of American Military Frontiers how the American military—and more to write the definitive book particularly the regular army—has played on the army’s relationship a vital role in the late eighteenth- and with the nation during the nineteenth-century United States that nineteenth century. This is extended beyond the battlefield. Repeat- the best exploration we are edly, Americans used the army not only to secure their expanding empire and fight likely to see of national their enemies, but to shape their nation civil-military relations and and their vision of who they were, often in the debates over the ways not directly associated with shooting balance between regulars, wars or combat. That the regular army volunteers, and militia in served as nation builders is ironic, given nineteenth-century America.” the officer corps’ obsession with a warrior Samuel J. Watson, professor of ethic and the deep-seated disdain for a history, United States Military standing army that includes Thomas Academy, and author of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, Peacekeepers and Conquerors: The Army Officer Corps on the the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and American Frontier, 1821–1846 debates regarding congressional appro- focus on state-building and civil-military priations. Whether the issue concerned relations. “This extensively researched Indian policy, the appropriate division of The United States Army and the Making work is an important power between state and federal authori- of America will be the definitive book on ties, technology, transportation, commu- the army’s relationship with the nation contribution to the study of nications, or business innovations, the from its founding to the dawn of the the US Army in its first 125 public demanded that the military remain twentieth century and will be a valuable years of existence.” small even as it expected those forces to resource for a generation of undergradu- Richard S. Faulkner, author of promote civilian development. ates, graduate students, and virtually any Pershing’s Crusaders: The Robert Wooster’s exhaustive research scholar with an interest in the US Army, American Soldier in World War I in manuscript collections, government American frontiers and borderlands, the documents, and newspapers builds upon American West, or eighteenth- and previous scholarship to provide a coherent nineteenth-century nation-building. and comprehensive history of the US Army from its inception during the American Robert Wooster is Regents Professor of Revolution to the Philippine-American History, Texas A&M University–Corpus MARCH 1 1 War. Wooster integrates its institutional Christi, and author of numerous books, 488 pages, 50 photographs, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 Studies in Civil-Military Relations history with larger trends in American most notably The Military and United Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3064-6, $39.95(t) history during that period, with a special States Indian Policy, 1865–1903. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3065-3, $39.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 29 NEW BOOKS US HISTORY | CIVIL WAR Southern Strategies Why the Confederacy Failed Edited by Christian B. Keller

“Their essays explore a outhern Strategies is the first-ever should have been achieved by other number of leading com- analysis of Confederate defeat using instruments of national power. These manders and campaigns, Sthe lenses of classical strategic and instruments are the diplomatic, informa- as well as economic and leadership theory. The contributors bring tional (including intelligence and public diplomatic factors, and over one hundred years of experience in morale), and economic aspects of a the field at the junior and senior levels of nation’s capability to exert its will interna- bristle with arguments and military leadership and over forty years of tionally. When combined with military insights that surely will teaching in professional military education. power, the acronym DIME emerges, a encourage further debate.” Well aware that the nature of war is theoretical tool that offers historians and Gary W. Gallagher, John L. immutable and unchanging, they combine national security professionals alike a Nau III Professor of History, their firsthand experience of this truth useful method to analyze how a state, University of Virginia and with solid scholarship to offer new such as the Union, the Confederacy, or author of The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great theoretical and historical perspectives the modern United States, wielded or American Crisis about why the South failed in its bid for currently wields its power at the strategic independence. level. Each essay examines how well rebel “Christian Keller and his The contributors identify and analyze strategic leaders employed and integrated contributors offer readers a the mistakes made by the Confederate these instruments, given that the seceded fresh way of looking at a political and strategic leadership that South possessed enough diplomatic, handicapped the prospects for indepen- informational, military, and economic timeworn question. In doing dence and placed immense pressure on power to theoretically win its independence. so they deliver a highly Confederate military commanders to The essayists also apply the ends-ways- readable book that is timely compensate on the battlefield for what means model of analysis to each topic to and intensely relevant to offer readers greater insight into the contemporary society.” Confederate leadership’s challenges. Peter S. Carmichael, Robert C. Southern Strategies confirms the reality Fluhrer Professor of Civil War that the outcome of the American Civil Studies and director of the Civil War cannot be boiled down to one or War Institute, Gettysburg College, and author of The War two simple reasons. It offers fresh and for the Common Soldier: How Men theoretically novel interpretations at the Thought, Fought, and Survived in strategic level that open new doors for Civil War Armies future research and will increase public interest in the big questions surrounding Confederate defeat.

Christian B. Keller is professor of history and director of the Military History Program, US Army War College, and author of The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall JUNE Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy 296 pages, 19 photographs, 5 maps, 6 x 9 and Chancellorsville and the Germans: Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3218-3, $34.95(s) Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3219-0, $34.95

30 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY | CIVIL WAR NEW BOOKS The Siege of Vicksburg Also by Timothy B. Smith Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23–July 4, 1863 Timothy B. Smith

the engineers’ work, the grueling nature Praise for Timothy B. of the day-by-day participation, and the Smith’s initial volume on effect on all involved, from townspeople the Vicksburg campaign, The to the soldiers manning the fortifications. Union Assaults on Vicksburg: The Siege of Vicksburg portrays a Grant Attacks Pemberton, high-stakes moment in the course of the May 17–22, 1863 Civil War because both sides understood what was at stake: the fate of the “This important work is Mississippi River, the trans-Mississippi region, and perhaps the Confederacy expertly researched, illumi- itself. Smith’s detailed command-level nating, thought provoking, analysis extends from army to corps, detailed, engaging, and a brigades, and regiments and offers fresh real page-turner. Enthusiasts insights on where each side held an will not go wrong by advantage. One key advantage was that purchasing this work.”

the Federals had vast confidence in their New York Military Affairs commander while the Confederates Symposium Review n The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the showed no such assurance, whether it Campaign to Open the Mississippi was Pemberton inside Vicksburg or “In providing definitive-level IRiver, May 23–July 4, 1863, noted Johnston outside. Smith offers an equally coverage of yet another Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers appealing and richly drawn look at the important western theater the first comprehensive account of the combat experiences of the soldiers in the event, The Union Assaults on siege that split the Confederacy in two. trenches. He also tackles the many Vicksburg only further While the siege is often given a chapter or controversies surrounding the siege, cements Timothy Smith’s two in larger campaign studies and including detailed accounts and analyses portrayed as a foregone conclusion, The of Johnston’s efforts to lift the siege, and status as an indispensable Siege of Vicksburg offers a new perspective answers the questions of why Vicksburg force in the field of Civil War and thus a fuller understanding of the fell and what were the ultimate conse- military history.” larger Vicksburg Campaign. Smith takes quences of Grant’s victory. Civil War Books and Authors full advantage of all the resources, both Union and Confederate—from official Timothy B. Smith teaches history at the reports to soldiers’ diaries and letters to University of Tennessee at Martin. His newspaper accounts—to offer in vivid many books include, most recently, The detail a compelling narrative of the Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks operations. The siege was unlike anything Pemberton, May 17–22, 1863; Grant JUNE Grant’s Army of the Tennessee had Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for 768 pages, 33 photographs, attempted to this point and Smith helps Forts Henry and Donelson; Corinth 1862: 1 1 19 maps, 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 the reader understand the complexity of Siege, Battle, Occupation; and Shiloh: Modern War Studies the strategy and tactics, the brilliance of Conquer or Perish, all published by Kansas. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3225-1, $45.00(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3226-8, $45.00

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 31 NEW BOOKS MILITARY HISTORY | NAPOLEONIC WARS The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2 Carl von Clausewitz Translated and Edited by Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle

“Murray and Pringle’s transla- arl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is cracks that finally fractured the alliance tion is exceptional; it remains best known for his masterpiece of between Russia and Austria and led to the faithful to the original while Cmilitary theory On War, yet that defeat of the Second Coalition first opened. offering its readers elegant work formed only the first three of his Moving from strategy to battle scene to and accessible prose.” ten-volume published writings. The analysis, this first English translation of others, historical analyses of the wars that volume 6 of Clausewitz’s collected works Vanya Eftimova Bellinger, roiled Europe from 1789 through 1815, nimbly conveys the character of Clause- author of Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman behind the Making of informed and shaped Clausewitz’s witz’s writing in all its registers: the brisk, On War military thought, so they offer invaluable often powerful description of events as insight into his dialectical, often difficult, they unfolded and the critical reflections “This book should be on the theoretical masterwork. on strategic theory and its implications. bookshelf of anyone with Among these historical works, one of The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon the most important is features Suvorov’s astonishing an interest in the French Der Feldzug von 1799 Returns in Italien und der Schweiz, which covers march through the St. Gotthard Pass and Revolutionary Wars or who an important phase of the French Revolu- major actions such as the Second Battle of wants to understand how tionary Wars. The Coalition Crumbles, Zurich and the Battle of Mannheim. The history, strategy, and Napoleon Returns focuses mainly on the nature of the campaign highlighted the politics interact under campaigns in Switzerland, where the contrast between the opposing armies’ wartime conditions. Highly different strengths and weaknesses and recommended!” the problems of fighting as part of a Alexander Mikaberidze, author coalition. This book will expand readers’ of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global experience and understanding of not only History this critical moment in European history but also the thought and writings of the modern master of military philosophy.

Nicholas Murray teaches strategy and policy at the US Naval War College.

Christopher Pringle is an academic publisher and a former officer in the British Territorial Army. FEBRUARY 344 pages, 11 maps, 6 x 9 Murray and Pringle are the cotranslators Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3033-2, $70.00(s) and coeditors of Clausewitz’s Napoleon’s Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3034-9, $29.95(s) 1796 Italian Campaign, also from Kansas. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3035-6, $29.95

32 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu MILITARY HISTORY | WORLD WAR II NEW BOOKS The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army Raymond A. Callahan and Daniel Marston

n 1945, the Indian British XIV Army The Burma campaign may not have “The book is extremely inflicted on the Imperial Japanese contributed in a major fashion to the final engaging and eloquent: an IArmy in Burma the worst defeat in its defeat of Japan, but it was of first-rate essential text for anyone history. That campaign, the most brilliant importance in the transformation of studying the campaign. Its and original operational maneuver South Asia, as well as underlining the accessible prose makes it conducted by any British general in the continuing importance of inspired such a pleasure to read—it twentieth century, largely forgotten until leadership in complex human endeavors. therefore deserves a much now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a wider readership than just full range of materials, from personal Raymond A. Callahan is professor emeritus accounts to archival holdings—including of history, University of Delaware and historians.” the bits the official historians left out, author of Triumph at Imphal-Kohima: Alan Jeffreys, author of Ap- such as the attempt by a jealous British How the Indian Army Finally Stopped the proach to Battle: Training the Indian Army during the Second Guards officer to have Slim sacked at the Japanese Juggernaut (Kansas). World War conclusion of the campaign. After the retreat from Burma in 1942, Daniel Marston is senior research “Callahan and Marston explain Lieutenant General Sir William Slim, professor and the director of the Secretary how and why the liberation commander of the British XIV Army, of Defense Strategic Thinkers Program, played a crucial role in the remarkable School of Advanced International Studies, of Burma in 1945 was the military renaissance that transformed the Johns Hopkins University, and author of peak of military excellence Indian Army and then, with that reborn The Indian Army and the End of the Raj. for Allied combined-arms army, won two defensive battles in 1944, campaigns during the Second and in the 1945 campaign shredded his World War.” Japanese opponents. Behind this dramatic Brian P. Farrell, professor of story was another: the war marked the history, National University of effective end of the Raj. This great trans- Singapore, and author of The formation was, of course, brought about Defence and Fall of Singapore by many factors but not the least of them was the “Indianization” of the Indian Army’s officer corps under the pressure of war. As Slim’s great victory signposted the change from the army Kipling knew to a modern army with a growing number of Indian officers, the praetorian guard of the Raj evaporated. “Every Indian officer worth his salt is a nationalist,” the Indian JANUARY Army’s commander-in-chief, Claude 288 pages, 19 photographs, 4 maps, 6 x 9 Auchinleck, said as the XIV Army took Modern War Studies Rangoon. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3041-7, $34.95(s) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3042-4, $34.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 33 NEW BOOKS VIETNAM HISTORY | US HISTORY | VIETNAM WAR Postwar Journeys American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975 Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala

“This book bridges a gap in ostwar Journeys: American and the scholarship that often Vietnamese Transnational Peace overlooks the role of P Efforts since 1975 tells the story of individual citizens on both the dynamic roles played by ordinary sides in the postwar effort American and Vietnamese citizens in their postwar quest for peace—an effort that led to reconciliation to transform their lives and their societies. between the former foes. Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala deepens our Far-ranging in scope and understanding of the Vietnam War and impressively researched, this its aftermath by taking a closer look at book is a valuable addition postwar Vietnam and offering a fresh to the ever-growing histori- analysis of the effects of the war and what ography of the war.” postwar reconstruction meant for ordinary James H. Willbanks, professor citizens. This thoughtful exploration of emeritus of military history, US-Vietnam postwar relations through US Command and General Staff the work of US and Vietnamese civilians College, and author of Abandoning expands diplomatic history beyond its Vietnam: How America Left and rigid conventional emphasis on national active historical actors who vigorously South Vietnam Lost Its War interests and political calculations as well developed cultural ties and promoted as highlights the possibilities of trans- mutual understanding in imaginative “This book broadens our forming traumatic experiences or hostile ways, even and especially during periods understanding of the human attitudes into positive social change. of governmental hostility. Through costs of war, and of the Le-Tormala’s research reveals a wealth of nonprofit organizations as well as cultural human endeavors that pave boundary-crossing interactions between and academic exchange programs, the path to peace.” US and Vietnamese citizens, even during trailblazers from diverse backgrounds Patrick Hagopian, author of The the times of extremely restricted diplo- promoted mutual understanding and Vietnam War in American Memory: matic relations between the two nation- acted as catalytic forces between the two Veterans, Memorials, and the states. She brings to center stage citizens’ governments. Postwar Journeys presents Politics of Healing efforts to solve postwar individual and the powerful stories of love and compas- social problems and bridges a gap in the sion among former adversaries; their scholarship on US-Vietnam relations. shared experiences of a brutal war and Peace efforts are defined in their broadest desire for peace connected strangers, even sense, ranging from searching for missing opponents, of two different worlds, laying family members or friends, helping the groundwork for US-Vietnam diplo- people overcome the ordeals resulting matic normalization. from the war, and meeting or working MAY with former opponents for the betterment Hang Thi Thu Le-Tormala is adjunct 232 pages, 19 photographs, 6 x 9 of their societies. instructor, Indigenous and American Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3190-2, $34.95(s) Le-Tormala’s research reveals how Indian Studies Department, Haskell Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3191-9, $34.95 ordinary US and Vietnamese citizens were Indian Nations University.

34 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu EDUCATION | CREATIVE WRITING NEW BOOKS Words Is a Powerful Thing Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail Brian Daldorph

rian Daldorph first entered the Words Is a Powerful Thing brings into “I get a lot of prisoner Douglas County Jail classroom in the light the works of fifty talented inmate anthologies from all over the BLawrence, Kansas, to teach a writers whose work deserves attention. world and at times they writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His Their poetry speaks of “what really seem to blend in together— last class at the jail for the foreseeable matters” to all of us and gives the reader some are okay, others sustained insight into the role that creativity future was mid-March 2020, right before worthy of serious reflection, the COVID-19 lockdown; the virus is plays in aiding survival and bringing a few reach higher to taking a heavy toll in confined communi- positive change for inmates, and, in turn, demand reading and studious ties like nursing homes and prisons. for all of us. Daldorph’s account of his thoughtfulness. And then Words Is a Powerful Thing is Daldorph’s teaching experience not only takes the record of teaching at the jail for the two reader inside the daily life at a county jail there are those few warrior- decades between 2001 and 2020, showing but also sets the work done in the writing spirit poets and fiction how the lives of everyone involved in the class within the larger context of inmate writers that cancel my class—but especially the inmates who education is the US corrections system, boredom and fatigue and came to class week after week—benefited where education is often one of the few awaken my senses to a from what happened every Thursday lifelines available to inmates. Words Is a higher attention as the afternoon in that jail classroom, where for Powerful Thing provides a teaching guide pages seem to leap up and two hours inmates and instructor became for instructors working with incarcerated grasp me by my shirt collar. a circle of ink and blood, writing together, writers, offering an extensive examination . . . This is one of those reciting their poems, telling stories, and of both the challenges and benefits. anthologies.” having a few good laughs. When Brian Daldorph decided the Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of story of his classroom experiences and A Place to Stand and Laughing in the great writing produced by the inmates the Light deserved to be told to wider audiences, he struggled with how to bring it all together. “Brian Daldorph and his fellow Not long after, an inmate wrote a poem writers have given us a gift.” titled “Words Is a Powerful Thing,” offering Daldorph a title, concept, and Christopher P. Dum, cofounder of the ID-13 Prison Literacy purpose: to show that the poetry of Project and author of Exiled in inmates speaks not just to other inmates America: Life on the Margins in a but to all of us. Residential Motel

Brian Daldorph is a creative writing instructor, Douglas County Jail, Lawrence, Kansas, and a senior lecturer, English Department, University of Kansas. He is MAY the author of six books of poetry including 248 pages, 6 x 9 Kansas Poems and Blue Notes, and the Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3215-2, $50.00(s) editor of the literary journal Coal City Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3216-9, $19.95(t) Review. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3217-6, $19.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 35 NEW BOOKS WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES | US HISTORY | KANSAS HISTORY Policing Sex in the Sunflower State The Story of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women Nicole Perry

“Perry explores the mixed olicing Sex in the Sunflower State: legacy of Progressive Era The Story of the Kansas State women’s activism and the P Industrial Farm for Women is the complicated role of women history of how, over a span of two decades, professionals. Chilling the state of Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a stories of women who traded venereal disease. In 1917, the Kansas freedom for medical treat- legislature passed Chapter 205, a law that ment and reminders of how gave the state Board of Health broad disease amplifies all kinds of powers to quarantine people for disease. social inequalities make this State authorities quickly began enforcing an important book for Chapter 205 to control the spread of today’s world.” venereal disease among soldiers preparing Pippa Holloway, Douglas Southall to fight in World War I. Though Chapter Freeman Distinguished Professor 205 was officially gender-neutral, it was insights into histories of women, sexuality, of History, University of Richmond primarily enforced against women; this and programs of public health and social gendered enforcement became even more control. Underlying each of these are the “Nicole Perry provides a dramatic as Chapter 205 transitioned prevailing ideas and practices of respect- detailed, meticulously from a wartime emergency measure to a ability, in some cases culturally encoded, researched and well-argued peacetime public health strategy. Women in others legislated, enforced, and assessment of the creation of were quarantined alongside regular female institutionalized. Perry recovers the the Kansas State Industrial prisoners at the Kansas State Industrial voices of the different groups of women Farm for Women.” Farm for Women (the Farm). Women involved with the Farm: the activist detained under Chapter 205 constituted women who lobbied to create the Farm, Michael Rembis, associate 71 percent of the total inmate population the professional women who worked professor of history and director of the Center for Disability Studies, between 1918 and 1942. Their confine- there, and the incarcerated women whose University at Buffalo (SUNY), ment at the Farm was indefinite, with bodies came under the control of the and author of Defining Deviance: doctors and superintendents deciding state. Policing Sex in the Sunflower State Sex, Science, and Delinquent when they were physically and morally offers an incisive and timely critique of a Girls, 1890–1960​ and an editor cured enough to reenter society. While at failed public health policy that was based of The Oxford Handbook of Disability History the Farm, inmates received treatment for on perceptions of gender, race, class, and their diseases and were subjected to a respectability rather than a reasoned plan of moral reform that focused on the response to the social problem at hand. MAY value of hard work and the inculcation of 296 pages, 14 photographs, 6 x 9 middle-class norms for proper feminine Nicole Perry is assistant director, Center Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3187-2, $65.00(s) behavior. for Undergraduate Research, University of Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3188-9, $27.95(s) Nicole Perry’s research reveals fresh Kansas. Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3189-6, $27.95

36 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu KANSAS HISTORY | MEMOIR NEW BOOKS Kansas Boy The Memoir of A. J. Bolinger A. J. Bolinger Edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker

small-town life grow increasingly aware “A. J. Bolinger transports us of the agricultural crisis of the 1880s and back to the American Midwest 1890s faced by farmers and small-town when the nineteenth century businesses as they struggled with the was drawing to a close and growing power of corporations, in possibilities seemed endless particular the railroads. In doing so he for those seeking a better offers ground-level insights into the appeal tomorrow. Editors Jeffrey H. of the Populist movement and the rise of Barker and Melissa Walker the People’s Party. The challenges result skillfully set the stage for in the Bolinger family’s move to the city of Topeka where A. J. attends Washburn Bolinger’s captivating College. As a college student he helps memoir, adding valuable temperance activist Carry Nation wage historical context to the her antisaloon campaign and he goes to narrative.” Washburn’s new law school. His first step Lana Wirt Myers, editor of The in pursuing what would be a lifelong Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas ansas Boy: The Memoir of A. J. career in the law is to replicate his family’s Settler and Civil War Soldier Bolinger offers the twenty-first- and his era’s pattern of moving to where and author of Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May century reader delightful and new opportunities lay: the Oklahoma K Williams Ward revealing insights on life during an era of territory. dramatic change in American history. “Arthur Joel Bolinger’s story Bolinger describes those years as “bursting A. J. Bolinger (1881–1977) offers today’s of his Kansas boyhood is not with energy, wild with ambition.” The reader a deeply felt memoir with keen Kansas of his childhood and young insights and thoughtful commentary that your typical grandfather’s adulthood was a place where life was is by turns startlingly progressive and (or great-grandfather’s) lived at a rapid pace: investors pursued deeply conservative. He offers us a richer frontier memoir.” fortunes as town developers, settlers understanding of life on the prairies and Virgil W. Dean, editor of John sought to establish prosperous farms and plains of the last decades of the nine- Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and ranches, and reformers tried to create an teenth century and the first decade of the Shakers in Kansas History ideal society. A. J. opens his account with twentieth century. a vividly detailed description of the prairie itself, including how the frontier Jeffrey H. Barker is provost and professor settlements of Kansas were in the process of philosophy, Converse College, of becoming established communities. Spartanburg, South Carolina. Born and raised in Elk County, Kansas, he tells stories of ranching and cattle drives. Melissa Walker is George Dean Johnson, Retelling some of the legends of early Jr. professor of history emerita, Converse MARCH Kansas, he debunks more than a few College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 192 pages, 13 photographs, 6 x 9 frontier myths. As he moves toward and author of Southern Farmers and Their Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-3185-8, $50.00(s) adulthood his accounts of farming and Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3062-2, $24.95(t) Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-3063-9, $24.95

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 37 NEW IN PAPERBACK US HISTORY | CIVIL WAR Fighting Means Killing Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat Jonathan M. Steplyk

Winner of the U.S. Military “[ teplyk’s] work stands apart because “Steplyk has employed extensive research History Group Colonel it focuses exclusively on what in primary sources to offer insights into soldiers in blue and gray thought how citizen soldiers reacted and adapted Richard W. Ulbrich S about taking human life and what to the reality of deadly combat in all of its Memorial Award performing the most traumatizing Civil War forms. this is simply a brilliant military duty did to them.”—Journal of book.”—Civil War Monitor American History “Americans of the nineteenth century were “Steplyk’s study brilliantly blends military all too aware of death, even violent death history and social history, pioneering an at the hands of each other. But nothing interpretation of how Civil War soldiers prepared the nation for the scale of understood fighting and killing, war’s military killing generated by the Civil most important, inescapable element.” War. Nor will we, who have learned to —Journal of Southern History sentimentalize that conflict so much, be prepared for the profile of slaughter laid “Through a judicious use of primary and out so skillfully by Jonathan Steplyk. This secondary sources, Steplyk contributes to book presents the horrific edge of killing the discussion of the motivations and in the most sobering detail, from Elmer recollections of the Civil War soldiers and Ellsworth to Ft. Pillow. It is a story of provides an in-depth examination of the good deaths and bad, of blind bloodlust attitudes toward killing in combat.” and instinctive repugnance, of bayonets —H-Net Reviews and musket stocks, of closed eyes and open wounds—which is to say, an all-too-human story. I have never seen the Civil War’s ‘face of battle’ appear in uglier or clearer form.”—Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era and director of the Civil War Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College

Jonathan M. Steplyk is adjunct instructor at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, and adjunct lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington.

AVAILABLE 304 pages, 20 photographs, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3186-5, $22.95(s)

38 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu US HISTORY NEW IN PAPERBACK The One-Party Presidential Contest Adams, Jackson, and 1824’s Five-Horse Race Donald Ratcliffe

“ truly splendid accomplishment. “With remarkable dispassion and careful Winner of the American Drawing on a prodigious amount attention to detail that neglects no state Politics Group Richard E. of primary-source research, it or candidate, Ratcliffe manages to make A Neustadt Prize effectively corrects many misconceptions 1824 intelligible without resorting to the sewn into both popular understandings of partisan legend of a “corrupt bargain.” the election and the regrettably meager He recaptures the fact that John Quincy body of professional literature on the Adams, Henry Clay, and their more subject.”—Journal of the Early Republic constructive philosophy of government actually enjoyed broad national support “This fine book provides a detailed in the days before Andrew Jackson overview of the election of 1824, when started slaying monsters in the public the reigning Democratic-Republican imagination.”—Jeffrey L. Pasley, author coalition collapsed into a complex race of The First Presidential Contest: 1796 for the presidency. His analysis should and the Founding of American Democracy force historians to rethink long-held assumptions about the rise of American Donald Ratcliffe is Emeritus Reader in democracy.”—Register of the Kentucky History at the University of Durham and Historical Society Supernumerary Research and Teaching Fellow at the Rothermere American “Ratcliffe explains the election of 1824 Institute, University of Oxford. within the context of the politics of the early 1820s, a period often overlooked by historians, when the country was dealing with the aftermath of the Missouri Com- promise and recovering from economic crisis.”—Journal of Southern History

“Everyone knows the story of the 1824 election and its climax in the “corrupt bargain” that stole the presidency from Andrew Jackson—and what everyone knows is wrong. In this book Donald Ratcliffe, our greatest living expert on the politics of the 1820s, explains why this election was not only one of the most fateful in American history, but perhaps also the most misunderstood.”—Daniel JANUARY Feller, editor of The Papers of Andrew 368 pages, 21 illustrations, 6 x 9 Jackson American Presidential Elections Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3247-3, $27.95(s)

www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2021 39 NEW IN PAPERBACK MILITARY HISTORY | ASIAN STUDIES | SOVIET RUSSIAN STUDIES The 1929 Sino-Soviet War The War Nobody Knew Michael M. Walker

Winner of the New York “ iveting. Walker marshals a wide Military Affairs Symposium array of first-hand sources to demonstrate the military signifi- Arthur Goodzeit Award R cance of the war. He takes us deep into the diplomatic wrangling surrounding the war, from Mukden’s raid on the Russian consulate to Stalin’s opting to continue the war instead of accepting conditional Chinese subservience.”—H-Net Reviews

“Walker’s book is essential reading. He gives this important subject the necessary attention it deserves.”—Journal of Military History

“Walker has presented a professional and competent work on the volatile and fascinating history of northeast Asia.” —Army History

“Walker provides an insightful analysis “The 1929 Sino-Soviet war over control of of a widely overlooked international the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria conflict. His book transcends the limits is perhaps the least studied twentieth of political or military history, elegantly century conflict even while being one of uniting the two in one concisely written the most important. As detailed by manuscript.”—War in History Michael Walker in his ground-breaking monograph, one immediate result of “Walker has filled a long-standing gap in China’s defeat was Japan’s 1931 invasion modern, pre-communist Chinese history of Manchuria, and its creation the next with his impressive work on the 1929 year of the Manchukuo puppet state, War between a China emerging from its widely seen as the opening salvo in the Warlord Era, and a Soviet Union emerging Pacific War.”—Bruce Elleman, William V. from its Bolshevik consolidation of the Pratt Professor of International History, former Russia Empire.”—New York US Naval War College Military Affairs Symposium Review Michael M. Walker is special projects docent at the state-sponsored Idaho Military History Museum in Boise. FEBRUARY 416 pages, 3 maps, 6 x 9 Modern War Studies Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-3260-2, $27.95(s)

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