Books for 2011 The KentThe KentState State University University Press Press CONTENTS New Titles 21 Literature in Translation: Teaching Issues and Reading Practices A Note from the Director 1 1950s Radio in Color: The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Maier & Kenney Edwards Kennedy 22 The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Books are hindrances to persisting 2 WIXY 1260: Pixies, Six-packs, and Burns and the Landscape of Race in stupidity.—Spanish Proverb Supermen Olszewski & Berg Antebellum America Barker 3 Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal 23 Interpreting American History: For the second year running we are Pools FitzSimmons & Meszaros The Age of Andrew Jackson pleased to announce an entire year’s McKnight & Humphreys new books in a single catalog. 4 Out and About with Winsor French Wood 24 Arguing Americanism: Pro-Franco As the five-year sesquicentennial Lobbyists, Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy, anniversary of the Civil War begins, 5 Queen Victoria’s Stalker: The Strange and the Spanish Civil War Chapman we feature a number of new studies Case of the Boy Jones Bondeson 25 Safe for Decolonization: The of America’s greatest conflict, and 6 Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and Eisenhower Administration, Britain, we are delighted to introduce the Crime Spree That Gripped a and Singapore Long historian Lesley Gordon as the new Nation Hollock 26 Seeing Drugs: Modernization, editor of Civil War History, the 7 Murder and Martial Justice: Spying Counterinsurgency, and U.S. field’s premier journal, now in its and Retribution in World War II Narcotics Control in the Third World, sixth decade. We offer inaugural America Adams 1969–1976 Weimer volumes in two new series— 8 The Christmas Murders Goodman 27 Trilateralism and Beyond: Great Interpreting American History 8 The Supernatural Murders Power Politics and the Korean and American Abolitionism and Goodman Security Dilemma during and after Antislavery—and a variety of titles 9 The Collected Stories of Ray the Cold War Wampler in established series: New Studies Bradbury: A Critical Edition, 28 A Cleveland Jewish Reader in U.S. Foreign Relations, Sacred Volume 1, 1938–1943 Touponce & Eller Rubinstein, Grabowski, Wertheim & Landmarks, Voices of Diversity, 10 Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Bennett Translation Studies, True Crime Rover, Hollywood Brawler 29 An Integrated Boyhood: Coming of History, and the Wick Poetry Series. Bauer & Dawidziak Age in White Cleveland Richards Literary highlights include the first 11 “Feel the Bonds That Draw”: Images 30 Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue: volume of The Collected Stories of the Civil War at the Western Architecture and Community Leedy of Ray Bradbury and an engaging Reserve Historical Society Dee 31 A Higher Contemplation: Sacred biography of vagabond novelist Jim 12 Shadows of Antietam Kalasky Meaning in the Christian Art of the Tully with a foreword by Ken Burns. 13 “They Have Left Us Here to Die”: The Middle Ages Fliegel From true crime to literature, Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. 32 Dedication: The Work of regional studies to history, and Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry William P. Ginther, Ecclesiastical poetry to popular culture, our 2011 Robins Architect Valleriano list has something to entice anyone 14 The Story of a Thousand Tourgée 33 The Local World Rosenthal who loves good books. 15 Army Raiders: The Special Activities 34 Tethering World Rambo Group in Korea Kiper 34 The Lonely-wilds Breese 16 Slings and Slingstones: The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania and 35 New in Paper Will Underwood the Americas York & York 35 Revised and Expanded 17 Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien Flieger 36 Recent Releases 18 Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: 44 Ohio History Journal Twenty-five Years of Criticism del Gizzo & Svoboda 45 Civil War History Journal 19 Hemingway, Race, and Art: 46 Order Form Bloodlines and the Colorline Dudley 47 Sales Information IBC Sales Representatives 20 Darling Ro and the Benét The Kent State University Press is a Women Hively proud member of the Association of American University Presses. 1950s RADIO IN COLOR The Lost Photographs of Deejay Tommy Edwards Christopher Kennedy Foreword by Terry Stewart A remarkable collection of photographs by one of rock’s early champions Between 1955 and 1960, popular Cleveland deejay Tommy Edwards pho- tographed the parade of performers who passed through the WERE-AM radio studio for on-air interviews, shooting more than 1,700 Ektachrome slides. Following his death in 1981, most of the collection vanished and was presumed lost. The few images that remained were often reprinted and rarely credited to Edwards, labeled “photographer unknown.” Until now. Discovered by musician Chris Kennedy in 2006, Tommy Edwards’s candid photographs capture the birth of rock ’n’ roll at its flashpoint: Elvis Presley while he was still dangerous; a raw and incomplete Chuck Berry before his star ascended; and some beady-eyed, high-voiced kid named Roy Orbison. It wasn’t just the architects of rock music whom Edwards had in his viewfinder. There were also pop and country music’s biggest stars, mysterious, unknown hopefuls, and vulnerable, deglamourized Hollywood celebrities. Edwards’s passion for photography immortalized hundreds of pioneers of rock ’n’ roll and pop culture in the radio studio, a setting that was often unseen. His photos offer a rare look behind a closed door. In 2009, Kennedy located the only surviving copy of the “T.E. News- letter” collection, Tommy Edwards’s self-published weekly two-page recap of Cleveland radio and record news for music business insiders, spanning from 1953 through 1960. The wealth of information and dates contained in the newsletters are the photo collection’s indispensable com- panion piece, and Edwards’s anecdotal quips are interspersed throughout the text of the book. 1950s Radio in Color gives Tommy Edwards his due recognition as the deejay responsible for perhaps the most important photographic and written documentation of twentieth-century music ever produced. Featuring over 200 color photographs, this book will transport readers Music/Regional History back in time, allowing them to step into Edwards’s shoes for a moment March and to feel the wonder and excitement he must have felt every day while Cloth $49.00t isbn 978-1-60635-072-0 witnessing a cultural revolution. c. 264 pp., 8½ x 11 illustrations, index Christopher Kennedy is a passionate music fan and an accomplished songwriter and musician, having released five albums with the band Ruth Ruth. He discovered this collection during his research into the long-lost rock ’n’ roll film The Pied Piper of Cleveland, which is rumored to contain some of the earliest footage of Elvis Presley. He is still looking for the film. Terry Stewart is President and CEO of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. CALL TO ORDER 419-281-1802 1 “Through extensive interviews WIXY 1260 with insiders, the authors Pixies, Six-packs, and Supermen chronicle WIXY’s relatively brief yet Mike Olszewski and Richard Berg with Carlo Wolff exciting run and how the station came to dominate the airwaves in The story of one of Cleveland’s most popular and influential radio the ’60s and ’70s with a winning stations combination of tastemaking playlists, unforgettable on-air Before FM radio and the commanding album rock stations of the 1970s, personalities, and outlandish pro- there was WIXY 1260, a tiny Northeast Ohio AM radio station that motions. It’s a fun story, recounted became an entertainment powerhouse. Three visionaries assembled a with ample humor.” legendary staff of on-air personalities and, with savvy programming and —John Soeder, Music Critic, groundbreaking promotions, created WIXY 1260—a station that would The Cleveland Plain Dealer become synonymous with 1960s pop culture. A Midwest juggernaut, WIXY aired everything from surf and Motown to country and the British Invasion. Crossing cultural and generational lines in one of the hottest radio markets in the country, it regularly took in more than fifty percent of the Greater Cleveland audience. Black Squirrel Books Bob Weiss, Norman Wain, and Joe Zingale knew the kind of radio September Cleveland wanted to hear. They also knew how to market that sound to Paper $22.95t isbn 978-1-60635-099-7 make it a lifestyle. They bought a small station with a weak signal and c. 160 pp., 6 x 9 renamed it WIXY, and it wasn’t long before their competition fell by the illustrations, biblio., index wayside. Mike Olszewski and Richard Berg spin a lively tale of popular culture that will appeal to everyone from baby boomers to media schol- ars and cultural historians. Of Related Interest Mike Olszewski is a veteran radio and television personality, historian, Radio Daze: Stories from and educator. He is best known for his work at WMMS-FM and has writ- the Front in Cleveland’s ten several books concerning the history of Northeast Ohio broadcast- FM Air Wars ing. Along with many regional and national broadcasting awards, Mike Mike Olszewski won a 2009 Emmy for his TV documentary Radio Daze: Cleveland’s FM Paper $29.00t Air Wars. Along with his broadcasting career, he also teaches media and ISBN 978-0-87338-773-6 communication courses at Kent State University, Notre Dame College, and the University of Akron. Mike and his wife, Janice, live in Aurora, Ohio. Richard Berg is a longtime media historian and is recognized as Rock ’n’ Roll and the one of the leading authorities on Northeast Ohio radio. Richard’s first- Cleveland Connection hand knowledge comes from close relationships he has established with Deanna R. Adams some of the biggest names in the industry. He’s currently working on Paper $39.00t extensive projects concerning the history of Akron radio and Cleveland’s ISBN 978-0-87338-691-3 KYW/WKYC-AM.