Fort Scott newspapers
...the outgrowth of the purest and best qualities of human nature. This collection might well be compared to the Garden of Eden in its combination of excellences and like the...
Stones and Shadows
...the image in relief, old man with scythe, and the quotation: "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." Impossible, grand. The earth is beneath us. The...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...
Ellipsis
...the walls: Mildew, semen, camphor, Oft-handled bills, coin metal, Cornbread breath that whispers and swallows and breathes. One day, as in the best bodice-rippers, the house burned down to the...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slaveholders exercised outsized influence on the federal government. But at its best this work goes beyond that oft-cited abolitionist charge and details how such influence manifested itself in the workings...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...economy, easily the best among the 102 largest US markets. The city’s success became a model others sought to emulate. Eliot Tretter, quoting Andrew Park, observes in the opening pages of Shadows...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...the best debut novel of the year. Mullen's books are notable for the range and variety of their historical settings and influences. Last Town on Earth is set in a...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Rough Country, in the spirit of Wuthnow's earlier work, is at its best when it takes the risk of linking social theories to empirical evidence. Wuthnow manages to avoid the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...