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New Titles: August

Posted by Clint Kimberling on August 18, 2008

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The following titles are out from UPM this month. All books are currently available.

Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers

Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire

History and Politics in French Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Sports and the Racial Divide: African American and Latino Experience in an Era of Change

Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States

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