The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.
Belmonte, Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Jun 2008)
Bloom, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (Apr 2008)
Brooks, A Legacy of Leadership: Governors and American History (Jun 2008)
Elias, Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture (May 2008)
Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Feb 2008)
Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America (2007)
Gordon, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Apr 2008)
Lanctot, Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution (2004)
Masten, Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York (Apr 2008)
Middleton/Smith, Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (Feb 2008)
Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (Mar 2008)
Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (2007)
Shaffer, Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States (Jun 2008)
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