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When the US entered World War II, it took more than industrial might to transform its tiny army into an overseas fighting force of more than eight and a half million. This work contends that the determination of American army officers to be prepared for the next big war was an essential component in America's ultimate triumph over its adversaries.

On August 25, 1938, Ben Dickson and his wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota. Two months later they hit a bank in nearby Brookings. Retrieving the Dicksons from the fog of history and the hype of the FBI's "Most Wanted" narrative, this volume tells the story of a damaged small-town girl and her petty criminal husband and their low-key crime spree.

Hunting down Americas public enemies was just one of the FBIs jobs. Anotherperhaps more vital and certainly more covertwas the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoovers FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuadedsome would say connedinto buying and even bolstering that image.Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term public relations, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha Deke DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoovers FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBIs law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era.

Examines the development of Michael Moore's ideas and the evolution of his filmmaking, then dissects ""Fahrenheit 9/11"", and explores the many claims and disagreements about the movie's truthfulness. This study shows that Michael Moore's film did more than shake up a nation.

Studying the role of the Supreme Court, this account argues that it has grown beyond its constitutional mandate since decisions made by the Court may be grounded in natural law or a ""higher law"". A more accurate and responsible view of judicial power is proposed in the discussion.

Chronicles how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows, Hollywood films, sports, music, and their use of the automobile. This book examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that, even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee.

The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between this present-day polarization and the design of America's Constitution.

The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between this present-day polarization and the design of America's Constitution.

It was 1948 when Abner Mikva, fresh out of college, volunteered at the 8th Ward Democratic headquarters in Chicago. Who sent you, kid? the leery ward committeeman asked. Nobody, Mikva said, and the man informed him, We dont want nobody nobody sent. That marked the beginning of Abner Mikvas storied political career, which would take him to the Illinois Statehouse, the US House of Representatives, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Clinton White Houseculminating in a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by a young politician he had mentored, Barack Obama.Around that time, eighty-seven years old and in declining health but as wise and wry as ever, Mikva sat down with his former speechwriter and longtime friend Sanford Horwitt for the first of the conversations recorded in this book. Separated by a generation, but with two lifetimes worth of experience between them, the friends met monthly to talk about life, politics, and the history that Mikva saw firsthandand often had a hand in making.Conversations with Abner Mikva lets us listen in as the veteran political reformer and unreconstructed liberal reflects on the world as it was, how its changed, what it means, and what really matters. Speaking in no uncertain terms, but with an unerring instinct for the comic, Mikva has something to sayand something well worth hearingabout his bouts with the Daley political machine, the NRA, and the Nazis who marched in Skokie. Whether recalling his work as a judge on civil rights, describing his days as White House counsel, decrying the most activist Supreme Court since the Civil War, expounding on our rigged political system, or assessing the Obama presidency, Mikva is eloquent, deeply informed, and endlessly interesting. And finally, in this intimate and unfiltered encounter, he remains an optimist, inspired and inspiring to the very end of a remarkable life of public service.In 2016, at the age of ninety, Abner Mikva died on the Fourth of July.

Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream. Moving from the city's centre to the outer limits of the metropolitan area, A River in the City of Fountains offers a clear view of the reach and intricacies of the Missouri River's connection to life in Kansas City.

It is broadly understood that an American president might test the limits of the law in extraordinary circumstances - and does so with advice from legal counsel. Advising the President is an exploration of this process, viewed through the experience of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert H. Jackson on the eve of World War II.

Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city's complicated and colourful past. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation.

Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city's complicated and colourful past. In exploring this city at the literal and cultural crossroads of America, Wide-Open Town maps the ways in which Kansas City reflected and helped shape the narrative of a nation undergoing an epochal transformation.

In 1940 Brummett Echohawk, an eighteen-year-old Pawnee boy, joined the Oklahoma National Guard. Within three years his unit, a tough collection of depression era cowboys, farmers, and more than a thousand Native Americans, would land in Europe--there to distinguish themselves as, in the words of General George Patton, "e;one of the best, if not the best division, in the history of American arms."e; During his service with the 45th Infantry, the vaunted Thunderbirds, Echohawk tapped the talent he had honed at Pawnee boarding school to document the conflict in dozens of annotated sketches.These combat sketches form the basis of Echohawk's memoir of service with the Thunderbirds in World War II. In scene after scene he re-creates acts of bravery and moments of terror as he and his fellow soldiers fight their way through key battles at Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio. Woven with Pawnee legend and language and quickened with wry Native wit, Drawing Fire conveys in a singular way what it was like to go to war alongside a band of Indian brothers. It stands as a tribute to those Echohawk fought with and those he lost, a sharply observed and deeply felt picture of men at arms--capturing for all time the enduring spirit and steadfast strength of the Native American warrior.

Explains how, under Richard Nixon, the Republican Party built its majority after 1968 with a forward-thinking, innovative appeal to young voters and leaders. Describing a complex network of influence, Seth Blumenthal examines the role of youth in courting white ethnic, urban voters and, in turn, the role of race and education in the GOP's targeted approach to young voters.

In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundly defeated by two Hopi elders in a race hosted by members of the tribe. Long before Hopis won trophy cups or received acclaim in American newspapers, Hopi clan runners competed against each other on and below their mesasand when they won footraces, they received rain. Hopi Runners provides a window into this venerable tradition at a time of great consequence for Hopi culture. The book places Hopi long-distance runners within the larger context of American sport and identity from the early 1880s to the 1930s, a time when Hopis competed simultaneously for their tribal communities, Indian schools, city athletic clubs, the nation, and themselves.Author Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert brings a Hopi perspective to this history. His book calls attention to Hopi philosophies of running that connected the runners to their villages; at the same time it explores the internal and external forces that strengthened and strained these cultural ties when Hopis competed in US marathons. Between 1908 and 1936 Hopi marathon runners such as Tewanima, Zeyouma, Franklin Suhu, and Harry Chaca navigated among tribal dynamics, school loyalties, and a country that closely associated sport with US nationalism. The cultural identity of these runners, Sakiestewa Gilbert contends, challenged white American perceptions of modernity, and did so in a way that had national and international dimensions. This broad perspective linked Hopi runners to athletes from around the worldincluding runners from Japan, Ireland, and Mexicoand thus, Hopi Runners suggests, caused non-Natives to reevaluate their understandings of sport, nationhood, and the cultures of American Indian people.

Personal stories and concrete advice for how to make the transition from an academic career to the larger marketplace of careers from those who have successfully done it.

Not every PhD becomes a professor. Some never want to, but others discover - too late and ill-prepared to look elsewhere - that there's very little room in today's ivory tower, and what's there might not be a good fit. For those leaving academia, or wanting out, or finding themselves adrift, this book offers hope, advice, and a look at how others facing the same quandary have made careers outside of the academy work.

The Dine, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education.

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of ten volumes of his published writings. Among these historical works, perhaps the most important is Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign, which covers a crucial period in the French Revolutionary Wars.

In a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created a public persona that has remained intact for nearly forty years. Here, Barbara Perry focuses largely on Kennedy's White House years, portraying a First Lady far more complex and enigmatic than previously perceived.

A study of the power of the American Supreme Court to interpret laws and overrule any found in conflict with the Constitution. It examines the landmark case of Marbury versus Madison (1803), when that power of judicial review was first fully articulated.

For all his carefully cultivated small-town sagacity, William Allen White (1868-1944) was a public figure and political operator on a grand scale. Writing the first biography in a half-century to look at this side of White's character and career, Charles Delgadillo brings to life a leading light of a once widespread liberal Republican movement that has largely become extinct.

Challenges scholarly assumptions about how the Osage built an Indigenous empire due to the hunting and war prowess of Osage men. Rather, Osage society was built on gender compelmentarity, Osage men and women were both central to hunting and war success and thus the rise and fall of their empire.

This first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary anthology draws on the insights of scientists, researchers, and activists and ranges across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences to explore the troubling environmental consequences of illegal marijuana production on public, private, and tribal lands.

In this first book on the modern history of exercise in America, Shelly McKenzie chronicles the governmental, scientific, commercial, and cultural forces that united - sometimes unintentionally - to make exercise an all-American habit. She tracks the development of a new industry that gentrified exercise and made the pursuit of fitness the hallmark of a middle-class lifestyle.

Sitting atop Mount Oread, the University of Kansas stands as a monument to the determination of the state's earliest settlers to build for the future. As a "city on a hill," the university has also mirrored both American society's hopes and its fears. Transforming the University of Kansas chronicles the accomplishments and challenges that marked the last half-century at the University.

H. Robert Baker has written the first and only book-length treatment of the landmark Prigg v. Pennsylvania case that became a pivot point for antebellum politics and law. Baker's eye-opening account raises crucial questions about the place of slavery in the Constitution and the role of the courts in protecting it in antebellum America.