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ICYMI

Godfall by Van Jensen and The Sound of Undoing by Paige Towers were selected as part of the 2024 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. Both are in the book cover category. The covers were designed by UNP’s Nathan Putens and Lindsey Welch respectively.

Awards

Justice in Plain Sight by Dan Bernstein is the winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Awards in the law category.

Reviews

Perfect Eloquence

Starred review in Library Journal:

“A wonderful and long-overdue tribute to a man whom many consider the best sports broadcaster who ever lived.”

Agents of Empire

Review in Pacific Northwest Quarterly:

“Agents of Empire is the best of Jewell’s multiple works on the First Oregon Cavalry over the decades, and could be a useful read for those studying military history or Native history in the Pacific Northwest.”

Lion of the League

Review in The Drill:

“This book rules . . . This book may be much thicker than a standard MLB rule book. But it’s justified. If it was just a bio on Emslie, it would have been enough. But context and history and all sorts of things were needed research by Gerlach to achieve this.”

Leave While the Party’s Good

Review in Bevis Baseball Research:

“Kluck’s biography of groundbreaking baseball executive Harry Dalton is an extraordinarily enlightening exploration of Dalton’s twenty-five-year career as a general manager from 1966 to 1991.”

Russian Colonization of Alaska: Baranov’s Era, 1799-1818

Review in Pacific Northwest Quarterly:

“There are many good points to the work. These include a careful narrative that revises many common errors and brings in important new material from archives.”

Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818-1867

Review in Pacific Northwest Quarterly:

“It provides a valuable synthesis of the voluminous published literature about Russian America, both of primary and secondary sources, as well as bringing in many new archival materials.”

Big Cat

Review in Lincoln Journal Star:

“The gimlet-eyed slugger on this book’s cover is Johnny Mize, a player most modern baseball fans hardly recognize. In Big Cat, Jerry Grillo will reacquaint readers with one of the most feared hitters who ever prowled the diamond.”

Twenty Miles of Fence

Review in Denver Post:

In Twenty Miles of Fence, West tells of how in ten years, he turned from a greenhorn into an experienced rancher. His early missteps made cowhands smirk, but he eventually learned not just the mechanics of running a ranch but also what it means to be a real rancher.”