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A foot-stompin', good-timin' tour through Texas' greatest country dance halls on the arm of Billy Porterfield, one of the state's best storytellers and a dedicated boot scooter since the days of Ernest Tubb. Porterfield two-steps his way from the fast tempo of Houston's Gilley's to starlit nights in the Panhandle with the Dancin' Dentist of Dumas, hitting every high note in between. The book is a narrative but it is also a carefully designed guide...
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Benny Joseph made his living as a professional photographer in Houston's black community during the crucial decades from the 1950s through the early 1980s, when the amplified pulse of rhythm and blues underscored the social changes sweeping the nation. Joseph photographed everything from parades and teen hops to impassioned speeches by civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. Under contract to the pioneering black entrepreneur...
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Once upon a time there was an innocent lad from West Texas who wrote a novel and fell in with a rabble of Texas writers as they were bridging the literary gap between J. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This rowdy rabble of gap bridgers bonded in a sort of literary and social club they called Maddog Inc. (Motto: Doing indefinable services to mankind.) But...
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"Remember the Alamo!" reverberates through Texas history and culture, but what exactly is being remembered? Over nearly two centuries, the Mexican victory over an outnumbered band of Alamo defenders has been transformed into an American victory for the love of liberty. Why did the historical battle of 1836 undergo this metamorphosis in memory and mythology to become such a potent master symbol in Texan and American culture? In this probing book, Richard...
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