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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas (The Texas Bookshelf)
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Author:
Bill Minutaglio
Publisher:
University of Texas Press
Date:
May 4, 2021
A new look at the last 150 years of Texas's contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state's famous, infamous and unsung figures.
What The Reviewers Say
Smoothly tackling this near-herculean research task, [Minutaglio] keeps the sweat stains from showing and writes in prose as cool as a trout stream.
The author draws from extensive historical research, as well as four decades of writing for Texas newspapers and authoring books that deal with Texas history, politics, and racial issues. In this book he makes a refreshing choice: he scales back coverage of several familiar historical figures so some lesser known, yet historically important Texans can be highlighted.
... Minutaglio...leans hard—perhaps too hard—into the crowd-pleasing nature of Texas public life. This latest installment in UT Press’s Texas Bookshelf series...is a readable, even rollicking survey of a century and a half of political conflict. But though the narrative will offer surprises even for those who know the material well, it too often errs on the side of telling a good story over painting a richer portrait of its subject.
... a vibrant political history of Texas from the 1870s to the 2020 presidential election.
