Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous History
Bills, E. R.
ISBN 10: 1467154342 ISBN 13: 9781467154345
Verlag: History Press, 2023
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Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past.
Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star State was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and for too many Texans, nothing was ever "Awright, Awright, Awright." A Black civil rights champion was assassinated in 1976, and the incident was buried. A "Cowtown Catcher in the Rye" was published in 1940, and the country club set made it disappear. And the war machines of Hitler and Mussolini were perfected with Texas oil during the Spanish Civil War. Author E.R. Bills challenges his proud neighbors, earnestly asking them to take a hard look at their past and examine their own historical amnesia, cultural fragility and fierce denial.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: E.R. Bills is an award-winning author and freelance journalist. His nonfiction works include Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious (2013); The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (2014); Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror (2015); Texas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg's Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales (The History Press 2017); The San Marcos 10: An Anti-War Protest in Texas (2019); Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups (2021); Fear and Loathing in the Lone Star State (2021); and 100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die .
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Titel: Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous ...
Verlag: History Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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