$5 Fridays

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Each Friday the University Press of Kansas will offer print editions of several select titles at the discount price of $5.00 each when you order through our website. These discounts will remain in effect while supplies last. The $5.00 books are displayed below, with new books added to the list every Friday!

(Additional discounts and coupon codes will not apply to the $5.00 books.)

Building Civic Capacity

The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools

Clarence N. Stone, Jeffrey R. Henig, Bryan D. Jones, Carol Pierannunzi

Paperback

The Constitutional Rights of Children

In re Gault and Juvenile Justice
50th Anniversary Edition

David S. Tanenhaus

Paperback

Disqualifying the High Court

Supreme Court Recusal and the Constitution

Louis J. Virelli III

Hardcover

Fighting with the Soviets

The Failure of Operation FRANTIC, 1944-1945

Mark J. Conversino

Hardcover

Kennedy vs. Carter

The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul

Timothy Stanley

Hardcover

Leadership and Politics

New Perspectives in Political Science

Bryan D. Jones

Paperback

The Nature of Childhood

An Environmental History of Growing Up in America since 1865

Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Hardcover

Reining in the State

Civil Society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate Era

Katherine A. Scott

Hardcover

Acting for Endangered Species

The Statutory Ark

Shannon C. Petersen

Paperback

America's National Monuments

The Politics of Preservation

Hal K. Rothman

Paperback

Empowering the West

Electrical Politics Before FDR

Jay Brigham

Hardcover

FDR and the Soviet Union

The President's Battles over Foreign Policy

Mary E. Glantz

Hardcover

A Guide to Bird Finding in Kansas and Western Missouri

John L. Zimmerman, Sebastian T. Patti

Paperback

Of Spies and Lies

A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam

John F. Sullivan

Hardcover

The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

Kendrick A. Clements

Hardcover

Projecting Paranoia

Conspiratorial Visions in American Film

Ray Pratt

Paperback

Revolving Door Lobbying

Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests

Timothy M. LaPira, Herschel F. Thomas III

Hardcover

The Tokyo Rose Case

Treason on Trial

Yasuhide Kawashima

Paperback

The American Dream

In History, Politics, and Fiction

Cal Jillson

Hardcover

The Confederacy on Trial

The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861

Mark A. Weitz

Paperback

Driving across Missouri

A Guide to I-70

Ted T. Cable, LuAnn M. Cadden

Paperback

Environment, Inc.

From Grassroots to Beltway

Christopher J. Bosso

Paperback

The Future of Governing

Second Edition, Revised

B. Guy Peters

Paperback

Gitlow v. New York

Every Idea an Incitement

Mark Lendler

Paperback

Imagining Tombstone

The Town Too Tough to Die

Kara L. McCormack

Hardcover

Neopluralism

The Evolution of Political Process Theory

Andrew S. McFarland

Paperback

Presidential Greatness

Marc Landy, Sidney M. Milkis

Paperback

Presidential Temples

How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory

Benjamin Hufbauer

Hardcover

Red Spies in America

Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War

Katherine A. S. Sibley

Paperback

Religious Freedom and Indian Rights

The Case of Oregon v. Smith

Carolyn N. Long

Paperback

Rutgers v. Waddington

Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review

Peter Charles Hoffer

Paperback

Barbara Bush

Presidential Matriarch

Myra G. Gutin

Hardcover

Chief Executive to Chief Justice

Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court

Lewis L. Gould

Hardcover

Headlights on the Prairie

Essays on Home

Robert Rebein

Paperback

Patriot Fires

Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North

Melinda Lawson

Paperback

The Presidency of John F. Kennedy

Second Edition, Revised

James N. Giglio

Hardcover

President Obama

Constitutional Aspirations and Executive Actions

Louis Fisher

Hardcover

Responsible Partisanship?

The Evolution of American Political Parties Since 1950

John C. Green, Paul S. Herrnson

Paperback

Selling Yellowstone

Capitalism and the Construction of Nature

Mark Daniel Barringer

Hardcover

Teaching Empire

Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879–1918

Elisabeth M. Eittreim

Hardcover

Time's Shadow

Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas

Arnold J. Bauer

Paperback

Transforming the City

Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change

Marion Orr

Paperback

Victory in Europe 1945

From World War to Cold War

Arnold A. Offner, Theodore A. Wilson

Hardcover

Archeology in Kansas

Patricia J. O'Brien

Paperback

Beyond the Borders of the Law

Critical Legal Histories of the North American West

Katrina Jagodinsky, Pablo Mitchell

Paperback

The Conservative Ascendancy

How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

Donald T. Critchlow

Paperback

D-Day 1944

Theodore A. Wilson

Paperback

Empire of the People

Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought

Adam Dahl

Hardcover

The End of Sustainability

Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene

Melinda Harm Benson, Robin Kundis Craig

Hardcover

Frontier Feminist

Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood

Marilyn S. Blackwell, Kristen T. Oertel

Hardcover

Future West

Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction

William H. Katerberg

Hardcover

The Great Chief Justice

John Marshall and the Rule of Law

Charles F. Hobson

Paperback

Group Rights

Reconciling Equality and Difference

David Ingram

Paperback

Justice Among Nations

On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace

Thomas L. Pangle, Peter J. Ahrensdorf

Hardcover

Morality Politics in American Cities

Elaine B. Sharp

Paperback

The Presidency of Harry S. Truman

Donald R. McCoy

Hardcover

Presidential Travel

The Journey from George Washington to George W. Bush

Richard J. Ellis

Hardcover

See Government Grow

Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan

Gareth Davies

Paperback

The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae

Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2

Matthew Cecil

Hardcover

Changing Urban Education

Clarence N. Stone

Paperback

Contesting Democracy

Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000

Byron E. Shafer, Anthony J. Badger

Paperback

The Crusade for Equality in the Workplace

The Griggs v. Duke Power Story

Robert Belton, Stephen L. Wasby

Hardcover

Faces of the Great Plains

Prairie Wildlife

Bob Gress, Paul A. Johnsgard

Hardcover

From Stalingrad to Pillau

A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War

Isaak Kobylyanskiy, Stuart Britton

Hardcover

Guantánamo, USA

The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost

Stephen Irving Max Schwab

Hardcover

Jefferson Davis, Confederate President

Herman Hattaway, Richard E. Beringer

Paperback

Living Landscapes of Kansas

O. J. Reichman, Steve Mulligan

Hardcover

Pitirim A. Sorokin

An Intellectual Biography

Barry V. Johnston

Hardcover

Race and Redistricting

The Shaw-Cromartie Cases

Tinsley E. Yarbrough

Paperback

Red Blood and Black Ink

Journalism in the Old West

David Dary

Paperback

Yamashita's Ghost

War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability

Allan A. Ryan

Paperback

Yellowstone and the Smithsonian

Centers of Wildlife Conservation

Diane Smith

Paperback

The Contract Clause

A Constitutional History

James W. Ely Jr.

Hardcover

Eisenhower's Heart Attack

How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held on to the Presidency

Clarence G. Lasby

Hardcover

Getting the Left Right

The Transformation, Decline, and Reformation of American Liberalism

Thomas A. Spragens Jr.

Hardcover

Hitler's Northern War

The Luftwaffe's Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940-1945

Adam R. A. Claasen

Hardcover

Holocaust versus Wehrmacht

How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort

Yaron Pasher

Hardcover

Intelligence Matters

The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror

Senator Bob Graham, Jeff Nussbaum

Paperback

Lincoln and the Border States

Preserving the Union

William C. Harris

Paperback

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11

How One Film Divided a Nation

Robert Brent Toplin

Hardcover

Those Girls

Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture

Katherine J. Lehman

Hardcover

Tom Taylor's Civil War

Albert Castel

Hardcover

The Union that Shaped the Confederacy

Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens

William C. Davis

Hardcover

Victors in Blue

How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War

Albert Castel, Brooks D. Simpson

Paperback

Wanted Women

An American Obsession in the Reign of J. Edgar Hoover

Mary Elizabeth Strunk

Hardcover

Attack Politics

Negativity in Presidential Campaigns since 1960
Second Edition, Revised and Updated

Emmett H. Buell, Lee Sigelman

Paperback

Backyard Visionaries

Grassroots Art in the Midwest

Barbara Brackman, Cathy Dwigans

Hardcover

Battleground Alaska

Fighting Federal Power in America's Last Wilderness

Stephen Haycox

Hardcover

The Coming of the Nixon Court

The 1972 Term and the Transformation of Constitutional Law

Earl M. Maltz

Hardcover

Free at Last to Vote

The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Brian K. Landsberg

Hardcover

Kansas Murals

A Traveler's Guide

Lora Jost, Dave Loewenstein

Paperback

Mr. Social Security

The Life of Wilbur J. Cohen

Edward D. Berkowitz

Hardcover

Sexual Harassment and the Law

The Mechelle Vinson Case

Augustus B. Cochran III

Paperback

Tracking the Axis Enemy

The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence

Alan Harris Bath

Hardcover

Waging War in Waziristan

The British Struggle in the Land of Bin Laden, 1849-1947

Andrew M. Roe

Hardcover

White Man's Wicked Water

The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892

William E. Unrau

Paperback

Wild Bill Hickok

The Man and His Myth

Joseph G. Rosa

Paperback

The Zapruder Film

Reframing JFK's Assassination

David R. Wrone

Paperback

Adoption Politics

Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58

E. Wayne Carp

Hardcover

Expedition of Thirst

Exploring Breweries, Wineries, and Distilleries across the Heart of Kansas and Missouri

Pete Dulin

Paperback

It's Our Day

America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005

Katherine Jellison

Hardcover

Little Rock on Trial

Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation

Tony A. Freyer

Paperback

A Nation of Laws

America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice

Peter Charles Hoffer

Hardcover

Obscenity Rules

Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression

Whitney Strub

Paperback

Paving the Way

New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956

Michael R. Fein

Hardcover

Presidents on Political Ground

Leaders in Action and What They Face

Bruce Miroff

Hardcover

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Volume 2

At the Confederate States Capital, August 1863-April 1865

J. B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr.

Hardcover

Recovering the Past

A Historian's Memoir

Forrest McDonald

Hardcover

Treasonable Doubt

The Harry Dexter White Spy Case

R. Bruce Craig

Hardcover

Writing the Gettysburg Address

Martin P. Johnson

Paperback

America's Ocean Wilderness

A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration

Gary Kroll

Hardcover

Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence

Text and Tradition
With a New Afterword

Ralph A. Rossum

Paperback

Battle for the Ruhr

The German Army's Final Defeat in the West

Derek S. Zumbro

Hardcover

California at War

The State and the People during World War I

Diane M. T. North

Hardcover

Constitutional Failure

Sotirios Barber

Hardcover

The Damned and the Dead

The Eastern Front through the Eyes of the Soviet and Russian Novelists

Frank Ellis

Hardcover

Great Wildlife of the Great Plains

Paul A. Johnsgard

Hardcover

Lady Bird Johnson

Our Environmental First Lady

Lewis L. Gould

Hardcover

Oz and Beyond

The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum

Michael O. Riley

Paperback

The People's Martyr

Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion

Erik J. Chaput

Hardcover

Producer of Controversy

Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War

Jennifer Frost

Hardcover

Reporting Vietnam

Media and Military at War

William M. Hammond

Hardcover

The Special Prosecutor in American Politics

Second Edition, Revised

Katy J. Harriger

Paperback

Stalin's Guerrillas

Soviet Partisans in World War II

Kenneth Slepyan

Hardcover

Branding Hoover's FBI

How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

Matthew Cecil

Hardcover

Captain Jack and the Dalton Gang

The Life and Times of a Railroad Detective

John J. Kinney

Paperback

Counterculture Green

The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism

Andrew G. Kirk

Hardcover

Curbing Campaign Cash

Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform

Paula Baker

Hardcover

The Enemy of My Enemy

The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right

George Michael

Hardcover

Growing Vegetables in the Great Plains

Joseph R. Thomasson

Paperback

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans

James F. Tent

Hardcover

Our Town on the Plains

J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922

James R. Shortridge

Hardcover

Pursuing Horizontal Management

The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

B. Guy Peters

Paperback

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Volume 1

At the Confederate States Capital, April 1861-July 1863

J. B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr.

Hardcover

Ski Style

Sport and Culture in the Rockies

Annie Gilbert Coleman

Hardcover

States of Union

Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order

Mark E. Brandon

Hardcover

Two against Lincoln

Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition

William C. Harris

Hardcover

The Failure of Popular Sovereignty

Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics

Christopher Childers

Hardcover

The Heir Apparent Presidency

Donald A. Zinman

Hardcover

Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency

William C. Harris

Hardcover

Majority Rule versus Consensus

The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun

James H. Read

Hardcover

Reporting on the Kennedy Assassination

Willem L. Oltmans, Michael A. Rinella, David Stephenson

Hardcover

Republicans and Race

The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974

Timothy N. Thurber

Hardcover

U.S. Army Special Warfare

Its Origins
Revised Edition

Alfred H. Paddock Jr.

Hardcover

Democratic Beginnings

Founding the Western States

Amy Bridges

Hardcover

Guide to Kansas Architecture

David Sachs, George Erlich

Paperback

Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him

George de Mohrenschildt, Michael A. Rinella

Hardcover

On the Hill

A Photographic History of the University of Kansas
Third Edition

Virginia Adams, Katie Armitage, Donna Butler, Carol Shankel

Hardcover

Sister in the Band of Brothers

Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq

Katherine M. Skiba

Hardcover

War's Desolating Scourge

The Union's Occupation of North Alabama

Joseph W. Danielson

Hardcover

The Presidential Pardon Power

Jeffrey Crouch

Hardcover

Reconstructing Iraq

Regime Change, Jay Garner, and the ORHA Story

Gordon W. Rudd

Hardcover

Secret Weapons and World War II

Japan in the Shadow of Big Science

Walter E. Grunden

Hardcover

Fugitive Slave on Trial

The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage

Earl M. Maltz

Paperback

Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate

The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image

Matthew Cecil

Hardcover

The Inhabited Prairie

Terry Evans

Hardcover

Ratifying the Constitution

Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch

Paperback

Sacrificing Childhood

Children and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War

Julie K. deGraffenried

Hardcover

The Slaughterhouse Cases

Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment

Ronald M. Labbé, Jonathan Lurie

Hardcover

Are We There Yet?

The Golden Age of American Family Vacations

Susan Sessions Rugh

Paperback

Hard Marching Every Day

The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861–1865

Wilbur Fisk, Emil Rosenblatt, Ruth Rosenblatt, Reid Mitchell

Paperback

The Miracle Case

Film Censorship and the Supreme Court

Laura Wittern-Keller, Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

Paperback

True Tales of Old-Time Kansas

Revised Edition

David Dary

Paperback

Watching Kansas Wildlife

A Guide to 101 Sites

Bob Gress, George Potts

Paperback

The Salvadoran Crucible

The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency in El Salvador, 1979-1992

Brian D'Haeseleer

Hardcover

The War for Korea, 1945-1950

A House Burning

Allan R. Millett

Paperback

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Kansas Centennial Edition

L. Frank Baum, Michael McCurdy, Ray Bradbury

Paperback

Mr. Truman's War

The Final Victories of World War II and the Birth of the Postwar World

J. Robert Moskin

Paperback

The University of Kansas Medical Center

A Pictorial History

Lawrence H. Larsen, Nancy J. Hulston, D. Kay Clawson, Gene A. Budig

Hardcover

Unpainted to the Last

Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art

Elizabeth A. Schultz

Paperback

The Vietnam War from the Rear Echelon

An Intelligence Officer's Memoir, 1972-1973

Timothy J. Lomperis

Hardcover

Wolfram von Richthofen

Master of the German Air War

James S. Corum

Hardcover

Doniphan's Epic March

The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War

Joseph G. Dawson III

Hardcover

Inside the Nixon Administration

The Secret Diary of Arthur Burns, 1969-1974

Robert H. Ferrell

Hardcover

The JFK Assassination Debates

Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy

Michael L. Kurtz

Paperback