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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS 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 Cover art: Portraits of Douglas County Jail inmates by Kerry Niemann. See Words Is a Powerful Thing, page 35. 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.

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