"It does what all great history does: demonstrates how something unique and new ever comes into the world." I love this description! Right now I am reading the book about Vince McMahon. I must admit that early on I found the family so distasteful that I nearly gave up...but then the writer started to draw me in. Where is this guy going, and how is an oddball character like this going to make a real mark on America? I want to find out!
Went and bought it. Looks like fun. I've spent way too much time in and over the Texas panhandle (including Amarillo) over the past several years, and my husband's family has had business in the region for 75 years, so I'm looking forward to something new.
Looks like it will sit next to Darren Dochuk's "From Bible Belt to Sun Belt" and a few similar others on the history shelf.
Lifelong Texan so will need to give this a read - still have my copy of Ben Barnes' "Barn Burning, Barn Building" somewhere on my shelf. It shares his inside perspective on how Democratic hegemony dissolved in the state, all while screaming "it wasn't my fault!" Turns out, it was kinda his fault! "The Myth of Red Texas" is on my list to read as well, but haven't heard anything about its quality.
I have no roots in Texas; but I grew up there from the age of four but Ralph Yarborough, Henry B. Gonzales, Charlie Wilson, Molly Ivins and especially Ann Richarsds are my heroes!! If you want to understand the good TEXAS from the fake Texas just listen to the Ann Richards’ Roast, on C-span (https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/ann-richards-roast/170146) in I think in 1992???
"It does what all great history does: demonstrates how something unique and new ever comes into the world." I love this description! Right now I am reading the book about Vince McMahon. I must admit that early on I found the family so distasteful that I nearly gave up...but then the writer started to draw me in. Where is this guy going, and how is an oddball character like this going to make a real mark on America? I want to find out!
This comment is very gratifying to read! Just the basic fact that I can sit in bed and type and get some stranger to do something... ;-)
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Went and bought it. Looks like fun. I've spent way too much time in and over the Texas panhandle (including Amarillo) over the past several years, and my husband's family has had business in the region for 75 years, so I'm looking forward to something new.
Looks like it will sit next to Darren Dochuk's "From Bible Belt to Sun Belt" and a few similar others on the history shelf.
This is much better written!
Lifelong Texan so will need to give this a read - still have my copy of Ben Barnes' "Barn Burning, Barn Building" somewhere on my shelf. It shares his inside perspective on how Democratic hegemony dissolved in the state, all while screaming "it wasn't my fault!" Turns out, it was kinda his fault! "The Myth of Red Texas" is on my list to read as well, but haven't heard anything about its quality.
I have no roots in Texas; but I grew up there from the age of four but Ralph Yarborough, Henry B. Gonzales, Charlie Wilson, Molly Ivins and especially Ann Richarsds are my heroes!! If you want to understand the good TEXAS from the fake Texas just listen to the Ann Richards’ Roast, on C-span (https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/ann-richards-roast/170146) in I think in 1992???
Oh, this sounds like a hoot!
Having lived in Lubbock for five years, this blurb has immediately piqued my interest. ;)