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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780385507370
- Book Title
- Lone Star Nation : How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence - And Changed America
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 33.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 592 Pages
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From bestselling historian and long-time Texan H. W. Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S. history--the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America. "For better or for worse, Texas was very much like America. The people ruled, and little could stop them. If they ignored national boundaries, if they trampled the rights of indigenous peoples and of imported bondsmen, if they waged war for motives that started from base self-interest, all this came with the territory of democracy, a realm inhabited by ordinarily imperfect men and women. The one saving grace of democracy--the one that made all the difference in the end--was that sooner or later, sometimes after a terrible strife, democracy corrected its worst mistakes." --from Lone Star Nation Lone Star Nation is the gripping story of Texas's precarious journey to statehood, from its early colonization in the 1820s to the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad by the Mexican army, from its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches to its day of liberation as an upstart republic. H. W. Brands tells the turbulent story of Texas through the eyes of a colorful cast of characters who have become a permanent fixture in the American landscape: Stephen Austin, the state's reluctant founder; Sam Houston, the alcoholic former governor who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis and glory; William Travis, James Bowie, and David Crockett, the unforgettable heroic defenders of the doomed Alamo; Santa Anna, the Mexican generalissimo and dictator whose ruthless tactics galvanized the colonists against him; and the white-haired President Andrew Jackson whose expansionist aspirations loomed large in the background. Beyond these luminaries, Brands unearths the untold stories of the forgotten Texans--the slaves, women, unknown settlers, and children left out of traditional histories--who played crucial roles in Texas's birth. By turns bloody and heroic, tragic and triumphant, this riveting history of one of our greatest states reads like the most compelling fiction, and further secures H. W. Brands's position as one of the premier American historians.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0385507372
ISBN-13
9780385507370
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6027161
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lone Star Nation : How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence - And Changed America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx)
Publication Year
2004
Genre
History
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
33.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F390.B833 2004
Reviews
Critical Acclaim forThe First American, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "Enchanting."--The New Yorker "A Franklin to savor."--James Grant,Wall Street Journal "In his clear and sprightly biography, H. W. Brands . . . recovers the actual Franklin who lived--before his memory became a bourgeois icon and was later, like all icons, trivialized."--Alan Taylor,The New Republic "Benjamin Franklin's life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands."--Bob Trimble,Dallas Morning News "H. W. Brands is a master storyteller"--Richard Norton Smith, author of the Pulitzer-Prize finalistThomas E. Dewey and His TimesandPatriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation Critical Acclaim for the celebratedThe Age of Gold "An engrossing, multifaceted history. . . . Its author, like the miners of the gold rush themselves, leaves no stone unturned."--Janet Maslin,New York Times "Dazzling. . . . Even California reviewers have gritted their teeth and handed Brands, an acclaimed popular biographer of Benjamin Franklin, some Texas-size praise."--Los Angeles Times "There's only one thing to say about a book that brings the twin touchstones of T.R.'s vigor and Franklin's humor to bear on the Golden State, and that's 'Eureka!'"--San Francisco Chronicle "A fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history."--David McCullough, Pulitzer-Prize winning author ofJohn Adams
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-061921
Dewey Decimal
976.4/03
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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