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Lädt ... Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (Texas Bookshelf)von Stephen Harrigan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I have read many of Stephen Harrigan's books on nature, and this Texas history book is his tour de force. I wish high schools would use this book as a Texas history book rather than the boring textbooks they use to teach history. Stephen makes the stories and heroes of Texas come alive in all its diversity. ( ) Harrigan is a novelist, journalist, and a pretty good writer. He has immersed himself in the secondary and printed primary literature of Texas for years, and, with ample amounts of money and time, has created a fine narrative account of Texas history. This is a T. R. Fehrenbach history of Texas for the twenty-first century. It is comprehensive, it is interesting, it reads quickly, etc. Harrigan mentions historical and historiographical problems, he mentions art and artists, he mentions Texas as a cultural object. He hits all the main parts of Texas history. Reading it, I can't say anything is really missing (except, maybe, Thurber, Texas, see my <i>Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer</i>). The images are excellent, the maps are cartoonish, but okay. I will say that when Harrigan gets to the 1900s and 2000s his Texas Democrat/Liberal leanings come out. Republicans are not as good as LBJ, racists are "conservatives," the city of Dallas was really mean to Kennedy (before he segues quickly to "The resounding irony is that the person who killed Kennedy was not a murderous ideologue who emerged from the right-wing hatred of Dallas..."). George W. Bush gets a few mentions, Rick Perry just one. He ends his deep description with every Texas liberal's love: Ann Richards. (Richards was a fiasco, but no Texas Democrat will stomach that notion.) Anyway, good. The essential complete history of Texas for the average reader. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 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 artistsâ??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 Tex Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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