Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Lone Star State of Mind PDF full book. Access full book title Lone Star State of Mind by Don Erler. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Don Erler Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739104507 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Unifying themes on the need for a vigorous defense of popular government and the benefits of capitalism are interwoven with discussions of censorship, abortion, terrorism, capital punishment, and education.
Author: Don Erler Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739104507 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Unifying themes on the need for a vigorous defense of popular government and the benefits of capitalism are interwoven with discussions of censorship, abortion, terrorism, capital punishment, and education.
Author: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Joshua Jackson adn Jaime King star in a hysterically rowdy look at small-town life and big-time trouble ... deep in the heart of Texas. Also starring DJ Qualls, Matthew Davis, Ryan Hurst and recording artist John Mellencamp. With a couple grand in the bank and a dream in their hearts, Earl Crest and his girlfriend Baby plan their escape to Los Angeles trom their hometown of Bennett, Texas. But a dim-witted cousin, an ex-con and an angry drug lord threaten to derail their plans. Now, with just 48 hours to straighten things out, Earl finds himself in the middle of a mess - bigger than the entire state of Texas!
Author: Paul L. Snelson II Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781448942497 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 558
Book Description
The Lone Star State of Mind is a creative journey. It documents a personal mythological passage through time and space geographically, metaphorically and autobiographically. The book begins with a poem written in 1984 then jumps forward to 2006 and moves chronologically and sometimes in a non-linear fashion between a span of over twenty years. Journal entries, poetry, stories and essays illustrate an artistic vision focused on cultivating positive thinking skills as inspiration for both the reader and the writer. It filters experience through selectively editing a diary of documentation and poetic interpretation. Each ephemeral moment is captured in a few words that reflect a singular point of view; real life is alchemically transformed through a diamond prism of multifaceted metaphors that resonate as poetry and then return to the daily realistic account of the artist's actual life from the ordinary to the magical and back again.
Author: Lawrence Wright Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525435905 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author: II Paul L. Snelson Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781682299890 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 574
Book Description
The Lone Star State of Mind is a creative journey. It documents a personal mythological passage through time and space geographically, metaphorically and autobiographically. The book begins with a poem written in 1984 then jumps forward to 2006 and moves chronologically and sometimes in a non-linear fashion between a span of over twenty years. Journal entries, poetry, stories and essays illustrate an artistic vision focused on cultivating positive thinking skills as inspiration for both the reader and the writer. It filters experience through selectively editing a diary of documentation and poetic interpretation. Each ephemeral moment is captured in a few words that reflect a singular point of view; real life is alchemically transformed through a diamond prism of multifaceted metaphors that resonate as poetry and then return to the daily realistic account of the artist's actual life from the ordinary to the magical and back again. Paul L. Snelson, II grew up in Monahans, Texas. He moved to Saudi Arabia in 1981, graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in 1987, then from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in 1996. Currently he is working toward an MFA in Digital Art at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Author: Ty Cashion Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806162082 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination. Lone Star Mind takes aim at this traditional narrative, holding both academic and lay historians accountable for the ways in which they craft the state’s story. A clear-sighted, far-reaching work of intellectual history, this book marshals a wide array of pertinent scholarship, analysis, and original ideas to point the way toward a new “usable past” that twenty-first-century Texans will find relevant. Ty Cashion fixes T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans in his crosshairs in particular, laying bare the conceptual deficiencies of the romantic and mythic narrative the book has served to codify since its first publication in 1968. At the same time, Cashion explores the reasons why the collective efforts of university-trained scholars have failed to diminish the appeal of the state’s iconic popular culture, despite the fuller and more accurate record these historians have produced. Framing the search for a collective Texan identity in the context of a post-Christian age and the end of Anglo-male hegemony, Lone Star Mind illuminates the many historiographical issues besetting the study of American history that will resonate with scholars in other fields as well. Cashion proposes that a cultural history approach focusing on the self-interests of all Texans is capable of telling a more complete story—a story that captures present-day realities.
Author: Nancy Pearl Publisher: Sasquatch Books ISBN: 1570616590 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.
Author: William C. Davis Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501178806 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions stretching back nearly a century came together in Texas in the 1830s in one of the great struggles of American history and the last great revolution of the hemisphere. Anglos steeped in 1776 fervor and the American revolution came seeking land, Hispanic and native Americans joined the explosion of republican uprisings in Mexico and Latin America, and the native tejanos seized on a chance for independence. As William C. Davis brilliantly depicts in Lone Star Rising, the result was an epic clash filled not just with heroism but also with ignominy, greed, and petty and grand politics. In Lone Star Rising, Davis deftly combines the latest scholarship on the military battles of the revolution, including research in seldom used Mexican archives, with an absorbing examination of the politics on all sides. His stirring narrative features a rich cast of characters that includes such familiar names as Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, and Antonio Santa Anna, along with tejano leader Juan Seguín and behind-the-scenes players like Andrew Jackson. From the earliest adventures of freebooters, who stirred up trouble for Spain, Mexico, and the United States, to the crucial showdown at the San Jacinto River between Houston and Santa Anna there were massacres, misunderstandings, miscalculations, and many heroic men. The rules of war are rarely stable and they were in danger of complete disintegration at times in Texas. The Mexican army often massacred its Anglo prisoners, and the Anglos retaliated when they had the chance after the battle of San Jacinto. The rules of politics, however, proved remarkably stable: The American soldiers were democrats who had a hard time sustaining campaigns if they didn't agree to them, and their leaders were as given to maneuvering and infighting as they were to the larger struggle. Yet in the end Lone Star Rising is not a myth-destroying history as much as an enlarging one, the full story behind the slogans of the Alamo and of Texas lore, a human drama in which the forces of independence, republicanism, and economics were made manifest in an unforgettable group of men and women.