Book Description
An annotated listing of over fifty books judged by the author to be the best examples of Texas literature; arranged alphabetically by title.
Author : A. C. Greene
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574410433
An annotated listing of over fifty books judged by the author to be the best examples of Texas literature; arranged alphabetically by title.
Author : A. C. Greene
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Best books
ISBN : 9780939722105
Author : A. C. Greene
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574410532
Describes growing up in small town West Texas in the early twentieth century focusing on fishing, festivals, and friendships. Also discusses the difficult struggles which many people experienced as well as portraying unusual people in humorous anecdotes.
Author : John Joseph Linn
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Bob Phillips
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1477324011
In 2021, Texas County Reporter celebrates its fiftieth season on the air. Broadcast every week on stations across Texas, it focuses on “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” And at the center of it is Bob Phillips, the show’s creator and host—an erstwhile poor kid from Dallas who ended up with a job that allowed him to rub elbows with sports figures, entertainers, and politicians but who preferred to spend his time on the backroads, listening to less-famous Texans tell their stories. In this memoir, Phillips tells his own story, from his early days as a reporter and his initial pitch for the show while a student at SMU to his ongoing work at the longest-running independently produced TV show in American television history. As we travel with Phillips on his journey, we meet Willie Nelson and become friends with former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry; reflect on memorable, unusual, and challenging show segments; experience the behind-the-scenes drama that goes on in local television; launch an annual festival; and discover the unbelievable allure of Texas, its culture, and, especially, its people. Spanning generations, A Good Long Drive is proof that life’s journey really is a destination all in itself.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811748537
The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa
Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0525520112
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author : Alan C Huffines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810155
The Texas Revolution is remembered chiefly for the 13-day siege of the Alamo and its immortal heroes. This book describes the war and the preceding years that were marked by resentments and minor confrontations as the ambitions of Mexico's leaders clashed with the territorial determination of Texan settlers. When the war broke in October 1835, the invading Mexicans, under the leadership of the flamboyant President-General Santa Ana, fully expected to crush a ragged army of frontiersmen. Led by Sam Houston, the Texans rallied in defense of the new Lone Star state, defeated the Mexicans in a mere 18 minutes at the battle of San Jacinto and won their independence.
Author : Ben White
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category :
ISBN : 9780692634585
The most efficient, readable, and reasonable option for preparing for the Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination, a required test for physician licensure in Texas. The goal of this study guide is to hit the sweet spot between concise and terse, between reasonably inclusive and needlessly thorough. This short book is intended to be something that you can read over a few times for a few hours before your test and easily pass for a reasonable price, with enough context to make it informative and professionally meaningful without being a $200 video course or a 300-page legal treatise. After all, the Texas JP exam isn't Step 1-it's a $58 pass/fail test!
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292759517
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.