Kansas Open Books collection: Recent submissions
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Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought Since the 1960s
(University Press of Kansas, 1999-10-04)Has the United States become more pluribus than unum? In terms of the nation's political beliefs, Robert Booth Fowler answers both yes and no. While his study affirms significant diversity among an elite cadre of public ... -
Presidential Lightning Rods: The Politics of Blame Avoidance
(University Press of Kansas, 1994-09-23)H. R. Haldeman, President Nixon's former chief of staff, is said to have boasted: "Every president needs a son of a bitch, and I'm Nixon's. I'm his buffer and I'm his bastard. I get done what he wants done and I take the ... -
The Black Towns
(University Press of Kansas, 2021-10)From Appomattox to World War I, Black Americans continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and American—how to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society ... -
The Frontier Challenge: Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West
(University Press of Kansas, 1971-10-01)The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express ... -
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States
(University Press of Kansas, 2021-12-17)A quiet revolution is taking place in America's forests. Once seen primarily as stands of timber, our woodlands are now prized as a rich source of a wide range of commodities, from wild mushrooms and maple sugar to hundreds ... -
Henry Adams: The Historian as Political Theorist
(University Press of Kansas, 2001-06-11)Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his other work is little read except by specialists. His brilliant journalism ... -
A Black Odyssey: John Lewis Waller and the Promise of American Life, 1878-1900
(University Press of Kansas, 1981-02-16)This book focuses on the career of a single individual—an ambitious, resourceful Black American—and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world. No Black American was more determined to realize the ... -
The Kansas Beef Industry
(University Press of Kansas, 1980-06-18)This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production—including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding—and an examination of the ... -
Lucius Polk Brown and Progressive Food and Drug Control: Tennessee and New York City, 1908-1920
(University Press of Kansas, 1978-01-30)Lucius Polk Brown was a professional chemist who became a bureaucrat in the field of public health during the Progressive era, when middle-class reformers first attempted to order American society through integrated systems. ... -
America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity
(University Press of Kansas, 1996-10-31)Emphatically revisionist, Bob Pepperman Taylor reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political ... -
Kansas Governors
(University Press of Kansas, 1990-05-22)This one-stop reference work is a governors’ hall of fame—a compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854. Using both primary and ... -
The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian America
(University Press of Kansas, 1977-08-01)This volume provides the first account of the pioneering efforts at sex reform in America from the Gilded Age to the Progressive era. Despite the atmosphere of extreme prudery and the existence of the Comstock laws after ... -
Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power
(University Press of Kansas, 1991-02-28)A central question in political science is who governs and how. Typically political scientists attempt to answer this question by relying upon either empirical analysis, which explains existing political practices, or ... -
Passions and Interests: Political Party Concepts of American Democracy
(University Press of Kansas, 1992-11-04)Bridging analysis of political parties and political philosophy, Passions and Interests presents eight conceptual models of political parties with particular relevance to American democracy. Gerald Pomper, an internationally ... -
Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James
(University Press of Kansas, 1997-05-30)Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. Renowned as the author of The Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience, James ... -
Harry H. Woodring: A Political Biography of FDR's Controversial Secretary of War
(University Press of Kansas, 1975-09-15)The names of most of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet members are well known. Anyone familiar with FDR’s administration will remember Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, Henry ... -
Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
(University Press of Kansas, 1988-09-28)In eleven provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a wide range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present both a picture of the ... -
A Preface to American Political Theory
(University Press of Kansas, 1992-09-03)It doesn't begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn't answer the following questions: "What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill ... -
On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History
(University Press of Kansas, 1994-07-12)Should Frederick Jackson Turner be revered as “the father of western history” or reviled as a misguided advocate of a frontier spirit and rugged individualism that denied cultural diversity and produced widespread environmental ... -
The Cattle Guard: Its History and Lore
(University Press of Kansas, 1982-12-04)With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions ...
