Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837–1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with him—Frank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity.
* NEW! Annotated bibliographies and related web sites at the end of each chapter. * NEW! Sections on organization development (in the Organization Behavior chapter) and lying about sex (in the Ethics chapter). * EXPANDED! Coverage of government regulation (Ch. 1). * EXPANDED! Discussion of the nonprofit sector (Ch. 3). * A readable and humorous text that receives high ratings from students. * Each chapter begins with a vignette or Keynote presented in a storytelling format. These Keynotes are mini case studies that are often referred to in the chapter, thus reinforcing the overall themes or lessons of the stories. * Chapters typically deal with historical and theoretical developments and then explain how relevant concepts and practices are applied in the varying levels of government and in varying cultures. * Hundreds of boxed quotes from public administrators, charts, graphs, and photos give the text a student friendly and engaging design.
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