Author: Philip LindsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity
Author: Philip LindsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity
Author: Philip LindsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dallas (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity
Author: Philip LindsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dallas (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity
Author: P. LindsleyA History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity
Author: Philip LindsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dallas (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Daughters of Dallas
Author: Vivian CastleberryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Dallas
Author: Patricia Evridge HillPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292799608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From the ruthless deals of the Ewing clan on TV’s "Dallas" to the impeccable customer service of Neiman-Marcus, doing business has long been the hallmark of Dallas. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Dallas business leaders amassed unprecedented political power and civic influence, which remained largely unchallenged until the 1970s. In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence (1880 to 1940) and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city. In particular, she looks at the activities of organized labor, women’s groups, racial minorities, Populist and socialist radicals, and progressive reformers—all of whom competed and compromised with local business leaders in the decades before the Great Depression. This research challenges the popular view that business interests have always run Dallas and offers a historically accurate picture of the city’s development. The legacy of pluralism that Hill uncovers shows that Dallas can accommodate dissent and conflict as it moves toward a more inclusive public life. Dallas will be fascinating and important reading for all Texans, as well as for all students of urban development.
North Dallas Forty
Author: Peter GentPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453220712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
National Bestseller: The “powerful novel” about the hidden side of pro football, written by a former NFL player (Newsweek). On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the pro game, chronicling eight days in the life of Phil Elliott, an aging receiver for the Texas team. Running on a mixture of painkillers and cortisone as he tries to keep his fading legs strong, Elliott tries to get every ounce of pleasure out of his last days of glory, living the life of sex, drugs, and football. Adapted for the screen in 1979, this novel, written by ex-Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent, is widely considered the best football novel of all time.
Dallas, Texas, a Bibliographical Guide to the Sources of Its Social History to 1930
Author: Harvey J. GraffPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
White Metropolis
Author: Michael PhillipsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2007 From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, Phillips reveals how white business leaders created both a white racial identity and a Southwestern regional identity that excluded African Americans from power and required Mexican Americans and Jews to adopt Anglo-Saxon norms to achieve what limited positions of power they held. He also demonstrates how the concept of whiteness kept these groups from allying with each other, and with working- and middle-class whites, to build a greater power base and end elite control of the city. Comparing the Dallas racial experience with that of Houston and Atlanta, Phillips identifies how Dallas fits into regional patterns of race relations and illuminates the unique forces that have kept its racial history hidden until the publication of this book.