Author: Publisher: Jeff Kerr
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Jeff Kerr
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Austin
Author: David C. HumphreyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0876112637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with historic photographs, tells the story of Austin’s transformation from an “Indian haunted” frontier village into a residential mecca and high-tech hot spot. Called by Sam Houston at its founding the “most unfortunate site upon earth for the seat of government,” the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin’s nineteenth-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught. A slave city in a slave state, Austin cast its lot with the Confederacy. Retaining a frontier flavor into the 1890s, post–Civil War Austin became the headquarters of the Texas gambling fraternity and a magnet for cowmen seeking “booze and women of the night.” Turning the nineteenth-century frontier town into an appealing twentieth-century residential community taxed the energies of civic leaders for several decades. Virtually parkless and with no paved streets in 1900, Austin by the 1940s boasted tree-lined boulevards, a cornucopia of parks and pools, and a leisurely lifestyle. But for African American residents these were years of oppressive segregation. Mexicans encountered similar treatment as Austin became a tri-ethnic community during the 1920s and 1930s. Segregation gradually gave way in a divisive but nonviolent struggle. While adjusting to this, Austin experienced eye-popping expansion. Fearful that Austin would become “another Houston,” residents sought to preserve the lifestyle that had made the capital city such an attractive place to live.
Refuge
Author: Jeff KerrPublisher: Treaty Oaks Publishers
ISBN: 1943658862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Where can you go when no place is safe? Miranda Flores must flee for her life. But she faces an impossible task: finding refuge where none exists. Her odyssey begins with her family’s murder in war-torn El Salvador. Knowing that she’s next, she escapes to the familiar embrace of the United States. There she encounters a hostile land intent on purging itself of people like her. A close call at a deadly nightclub raid convinces her that she cannot stay. With courage as her compass, Miranda embarks on a risky journey to seek sanctuary in Canada. Behind her, a murderous government agent. Up ahead, a perilous landscape in which every person she meets is a potential threat. Refuge, a heart-pounding thriller set in a not-so-distant future, hurtles like a runaway train toward a tense conclusion that will leave its readers breathless.
Sea to Shining Sea: The Mexican American War and the Manifest Destiny
Author: Jack WhitePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257644211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"Sea to Shining Sea: The Mexican American War and the Manifest Destiny" is a stand-alone sequel to Jack White's historical novel "Ten Years In Texas". "Sea to Shining Sea" is set during the years 1846 to 1848 and covers the bloody war between the two major North American powers. Jack deals with the deception and backstabbing on both sides of the Rio Grande, along with the heroic efforts of individuals who braved their lives for the Manifest Destiny. Written with the nail biting excitement of a novel, "Sea to Shining Sea" is historically accurate down to the weapons used on each side. By the end of the war the United States extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, with President James K. Polk doubling America's landmass during his four years in the Oval Office. If you enjoy history you will love "Sea to Shining Sea". This historical novel is crammed full of interesting tidbits and information not found in any books covering this important moment in America's colorful past.
Hedy's Folly
Author: Richard RhodesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307742954
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.
Fighter Pilot Follies
Author: Michael PetridisPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669814742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
You’ve seen the images from Hollywood. Macho, tough, with an almost John Wayne air about him, the fighter pilot has been famously portrayed as a gallant warrior. Now, take a look behind the scenes at a different look at the fighter pilot. Gone is the mystique and sense of danger. Instead is a fresh look at the comical aspects of being a fighter pilot; events, scenarios, during war and during peacetime, that show quite a different picture of the “hard as nails” image of the fighter pilot. Fictitious callsigns such as “Maverick” and “Ghostrider” are replaced with “Moe,” “Larry”, and “Curly.” Yes, there are scenes where these nonchalant, easygoing fighter-pilot types are racing through the sky, boring holes in the clouds, going supersonic; but it’s how and why they are there that makes the story interesting. Shooting rockets at the wrong target, scrambling to takeoff in the middle of the night from a dead sleep, ejecting from the aircraft after breaking it apart on the ground, getting lost while airborne, frantically trying to strafe a Soviet jet --- these are all the stories about real flying that never make the headlines of the daily paper. Working hard and playing hard, the fighter pilot genre is shown anew, much to the reader’s delight. Those who have pressed the edge and lived to talk about it know these stories; those aspiring to do so will simply be amazed, ready to stand in line for their turn.
The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
Author: Mirabeau Buonaparte LamarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Lamar's state papers and personal correspondence, and of manuscripts collected by him. He was at successive periods Attorney General, Secretary of War, Vice-President, and President of the Republic of Texas.
Lamar's Folly
Author: Jeffrey Stuart KerrPublisher:
ISBN: 9781682830185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Novel using historical materials to imagine Mirabeau Lamar's failed Santa Fe Expedition during his presidency of the Republic of Texas"--
North & South
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Single Star of the West
Author: Kenneth W. HowellPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
Does Texas’s experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an “accidental republic” for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West chronicles Texas’s efforts to maneuver through the pitfalls and hardships of creating and maintaining the “accidental republic.” The volume begins with the Texas Revolution and examines whether or not a true Texas identity emerged during the Republic era. Next, several contributors discuss how the Republic was defended by its army, navy, and the Texas Rangers. Individual chapters focus on the early founders of Texas—Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Anson Jones—who were all exceptional men, but like all men, suffered from their own share of fears and faults. Texas’s efforts at diplomacy, and persistence and transformation in its economy, also receive careful analysis. Finally, social and cultural aspects of the Texas Republic receive coverage, with discussions of women, American Indians, African Americans, Tejanos, and religion. The contributors also focus on the extent that conditions in the republic attracted political and economic opportunists, some of whom achieved a remarkable degree of success. Single Star of the West also highlights how the Texas Republic was established on American political ideology. With the majority of the white settlers coming from the United States, this will not surprise many scholars of the era. In some cases, the Texans successfully adopted American political and economic ideology to their needs, while other times they failed miserably.
