Missouri Books

This is the Truman book you will truly enjoy-- after reading the 5,000 others. Harry S Truman was a real old-fashioned communicator who understood the value of honestly telling others what was on his mind (a great and thoughtful mind) at any appropriate juncture. He also had the good judgment-- once he had dictated and reviewed a letter to some notable-- to at times keep a particular letter from the mail, and save it exclusively for his own files. Truman spared himself countless embarrassments using this discipline.

If you liked "Harry and Ike," you'll love Poen's book, which you have to search for. The work is worth it-- Truman was the last of the Mohicans, a president who believed in telling both the American public and those with whom he interacted his honest assessment of a situation.

When I studied at the Truman Library in Independence in 1985, two years after first reading this book, I found the original correspondence. It is as priceless as Poen thoughtfully put it all together.

A gift for a retired navy man who served on this ship and was very impressed.

Kept me laughing all weekend. Lots of stories, even lectures, besides the jokes--all with the regional twist.

In 1914, European social order and society was a house of cards needing only the slightest pressure to collapse into chaos. Literary scholar Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (University Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) presents The Summer the Archduke Died: On Wars and Warriors, an anthology of essays discussing the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 and the events of subsequent years. Topics covered include German militarism, America's role in the war, British-American politics, the decline of the British caste system, and an intriguing comparison between the political impact of the Mitford sisters and Violet Bonham Carter, who used her social position to improve the status of women. A thoughtful, erudite, and analytical collection, especially recommended for college library shelves.

This book is a wonderful book,for someone who is alone and don't have anyone to cozie up with. I gave this book 5 stars because this book brings out the best of the author and he should write more books like it.

This book is an amazing exploration of women in American history and literature. We see women coping as spies, soldiers, thievies, con-artists, and "everyday" pretenders, struggling to survive and sometimes enjoying the games they are playing on us. This book is a delight and the characters really come to life, especially the thieves

Back in the 1940's the author and her husband moved from Chicago to a farm in the Missouri Ozarks. They encounter the typical culture shock of city to rural area, which was even more so during the period in which this book was written. The author pokes fun at herself and her husband, " the jedge", and relates hilarious tales involving them and their neighbors, whom they came to know and love. Both this book, Take To The Hills, and the next book, Fresh From The Hills, are written in a lively manner with lots of character description and humorous dialogue and action. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys reading about country life as it was, and especially for anyone with any ties to the Ozarks.

Because the author took the time to talk with dozens of Missouri players and most of the living coaches, Tales from the Missouri Tigers captures a ton of great moments in the school's sports history.

I liked that it gave me a "behind-the-scenes" look at many of my favorite Mizzou games and accomplishments, especially what the players and coaches were experiencing. As a relativly new Tigers fan (since the early 1990's) I was also very interested in the stories from as far back as the 1940's and 50's -- I especially enjoyed reading about Missouri Football's golden age in the 1960's -- something I had heard mentioned now and again, but never knew the details. The author deserves a lot of credit for tracking down so many players and coaches from this era and earlier!

Overall, the author did a great job at providing a lot of history in an enjoyable, easy-to-read way. The book made me a more appreciative fan and I learned some great facts about my school's sports heritate.

I was captivated by the book as soon as I saw the cover. Having an expectation of what the book was like, I opened it and recieved an unexpected book. What I thought was going to be a historical account of what went on in Pilot Grove since the turn of the century, turned out to be one persons account of how he grew up, and became a man during some of the most troubling times of our country. The very details that he remembered and captured into words concerning some of the littlest things and the biggest things that he did. Such as when he used to by ice cream in the local ice cream parlor, or when he worked on the railroad when he was just fifteen years old. He described how he managed a crew of older men that could well have been his grandfathers with such detail, that I felt like I was right there with him. I felt a sense of aw when he related his motor cycle troubles with the reader. I was in complete attention when he commanded a quad fifty-caliber machine gun in Korea, and especially when he unleashed a halo of fire into a bunker of Chinese, that were trying to take out his entire unit. I felt saddened when he came back to a town that had changed so significantly, by taking out the railroad, the one thing that had meant so much to him, and his father. I think that the raw feelings of this man's story was there, and if somebody else were to read the book they would be in agreement with me. Thank you.

The stereotype of the south has always been one of a people backwards and not up with the times. "Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization: From the Antebellum Era to the Computer Age" seeks to dispel that myth by discussing the south's contributions to America's revolutions in technology as the country entered the twentieth century and brought technology to the forefront of humanity's achievements. With a look at southern inventions so often overlooked as southern, "Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization" is a history book that any southern intellectual can look on with pride for his region.