Over the past few months, we have made some of our best-selling books newly available in digital formats. All of these are great reads that would be perfect as travel companions.
Before Laura Ingalls Wilder found fame
with her Little House books, she made a name for herself with short nonfiction
pieces in magazines and newspapers. Read today, these pieces offer insight into
her development as a writer and into her life as a farm wife in the Ozarks—and also show us
a different Laura Ingalls Wilder from the woman we have come to know. Laura Ingalls
Wilder, Farm Journalist distills the essence of her pioneer heritage and
will delight fans of her later work as it brings to life a vanished era.
Steven
Watts’s The Magic
Kingdom
sheds
new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply
into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and
brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche--his genuine
folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his
deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the
Disney Studio and tales about the creation of Disneyland and Disney World, The
Magic Kingdom offers a definitive view of one of the most influential
Americans of the twentieth century.
As the Los Angeles Superior Court’s
media liaison, Jerrianne Hayslett had unprecedented access to the O. J. Simpson
trial—and met with Judge Lance Ito daily—as she attempted, sometimes
unsuccessfully, to mediate between the court and members of the media and to
balance their interests. In Anatomy of
a Trial: Public Loss, Lessons Learned from "The People vs. O.J. Simpson," she takes
readers behind the scenes to shed new light on people and proceedings and to
show how the media and the trial participants changed the court-media landscape
to the detriment of the public’s understanding of the judicial system.
In Women Escaping Violence, Elaine
Lawless juxtaposes battered
women's stories told in their own words with a feminist analysis of how
these women use the power of narrative to transform their sense of self and
regain a place within the larger society. Lawless shares the
heart-wrenching experiences of women who have escaped violence by
fleeing to shelters with little more than a few items hastily shoved into a
plastic bag, and often with small children in tow. The book includes women's
stories as they are told and retold within the shelter, in the presence of
other battered women and of caregivers, analyzing the uses made of these
narratives by those seeking to counsel battered women as well as by the women
themselves.
A black man praised by white
America, George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an anomaly in his own time. George Washington Carver: In His Own Words, edited by Gary
R. Kremer, offers a choice selection of Carver's writings that reveals the
human side of the famous black scientist, as well as the forces that shaped his
creative genius.
On January 2, 1932, near
Springfield, Missouri, ten poorly armed law enforcement officers set out to
arrest two local farm boys for auto theft. A few minutes later, six of the
officers lay dead and three were wounded. The two killers, Jennings and Harry
Young, were from a peaceful, tiny community named Brookline in central Greene
County, Missouri. The "massacre" itself took place at the quiet
orderly farm home of the Young family. In Young
Brothers Massacre, Paul and Mary Barrett trace the
personalities of those involved, describe the events of the
fateful day, and examine the aftermath of the killings, detailing what was
called "the greatest man hunt in the history of Texas," which
culminated in the brothers' deaths in Houston
You can buy any of these e-books from
Amazon, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Chegg, Ebrary, EBSCO, Google,
Kobo, OverDrive, Sony, and the Press’s own web page, where you will also find
many more e-books available.
More new e-books are featured on the Press’s Special Offers page for the
month of June, along with a selection of our
best-selling ebooks and a special coupon offer.
Do you have a favorite University of Missouri Press book you'd like to have available as an e-book? If so, let us know in the comments.
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