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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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"Biography of William J. Spillman, scientist and educator for the United States Department of Agriculture. Explores Spillman's role in the development of the agricultural economics, the agricultural New Deal, genetics research, agricultural education and the Cooperative Extension Service, the post-World War I overproduction crisis, and the Law of Diminishing Returns"--Provided by publisher.
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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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"Examines that life and career of Joseph Pulitzer III, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was the head of the Pulitzer Publishing Company, and he served as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University for thirty-one years"--Provided by publisher.
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University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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"Examines Nathan Young's 20-year academic career, during which he attempted to uphold W. E. B. Du Bois's vision of liberal arts education for blacks while balancing it with the agricultural/vocational education advocated by Booker T. Washington, adhering to high standards for black higher education despite powerful and entrenched opposition"--Provided by publisher.
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Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty, commitment to service, and basic honesty—moved with method and system toward the presidency.
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