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Author : Johnny Rutherford
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2000-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 162368482X

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With his signature Texas flag painted on his helmet, Johnny "J.R." Rutherford captured the hearts of racing fans all over the world during his stellar three-decade-long career. A versatile driver, he is world renowned for his record-breaking successes in the ultra-competitive world of Indy and Sprint cars. In Lone Star J.R., Johnny himself takes us on an exciting drive through his life and gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the racing world. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1938, John Sherman Rutherford III did his duty in the U.S. Marine Corps for six years before beginning his legendary racing career in Texas. After overcoming a serious accident in 1966, in which he suffered two broken arms, he began to achieve his greatest success. J.R. relives his historic Indianapolis 500 wins (in 1974, 1976, and 1980) and explains the allure and excitement of racing in this personal look back at his storied racing career.

Author : Lucas A. Powe Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520970012

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Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state. In any classroom nationwide, any basic constitutional law course can be taught using nothing but Texas cases. That, however, understates the history and politics behind the cases. Beyond representing all doctrinal areas of constitutional law, Texas cases deal with the major issues of the nation. Leading legal scholar and Supreme Court historian Lucas A. Powe, Jr., charts the rich and pervasive development of Texas-inspired constitutional law. From voting rights to railroad regulations, school finance to capital punishment, poverty to civil liberties, this wide-ranging and eminently readable book provides a window into the relationship between constitutional litigation and ordinary politics at the Supreme Court, illuminating how all of the fiercest national divides over what the Constitution means took shape in Texas.

Author : Bobby Byrd
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617750018

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“Traverses Texas, finding evidence of the hard boiled, sultry, and disreputable throughout the state . . . Think of the book as a sort of criminal travelogue.” —Booklist If everything is bigger in Texas, then that includes the boldness of the criminals who call the state home. From large urban centers to the Cajun Gulf coast, there is big money to be made running guns, drugs, and catering to the greedy and disillusioned. Each distinctive region can claim its own special brand of outlaw. In Lone Star Noir, you’ll find stories by James Crumley, Joe R. Lansdale, Claudia Smith, Ito Romo, Luis Alberto Urrea, David Corbett, George Wier, Sarah Cortez, Jesse Sublett, Dean James, Tim Tingle, Milton T. Burton, Lisa Sandlin, Jessica Powers, and Bobby Byrd. “This isn’t J.R. Ewing’s Lone Star State. This is the Texas of chicken shit bingo, Enron scamsters, and a feeling that what happens in Mexico stays in Mexico . . . So what defines Texas noir? Who knows, but you better pray that blood doesn’t stain your belt buckle.” —The Austin Chronicle

Author : James W. Riddlesperger
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780875654188

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"A joint project of the Center for Texas Studies at TCU and TCU Press."

Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195054354

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Volume one of a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice president under Kennedy.

Author : Gaylon Finklea Hecker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 099973184X

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A fascinating collection of oral history interviews details Texas in the early twentieth century and how life in the Lone Star State helped the interviewees achieve success.

Author : Harold F. Eggers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493082876

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“Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in.'” So writes Harold Eggers, Townes Van Zandt's longtime road manager and producer, in My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage – a gripping memoir revealing the inner core of an enigmatic troubadour, whose deeply poetic music was a source of inspiration and healing for millions but was for himself a torment struggling for dominance among myriad personal demons. Townes Van Zandt often stated that his main musical mission was to “write the perfect song that would save someone's life.” However, his life was a work in progress he was constantly struggling to shape and comprehend. Eggers says of his close friend and business partner that “like the master song craftsman he was, he was never truly satisfied with the final product but always kept giving it one more shot, one extra tweak, one last effort.” A vivid, firsthand account exploring the source of the singer's prodigious talent, widespread influence, and relentless path toward self-destruction, My Years with Townes Van Zandt presents the truth of that all-consuming artistic journey told by a close friend watching it unfold.

Author : James Reston (Jr.)
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A biography of Connally's life includes his twenty years of political power, his return to Texas and riches, and then bankruptcy.

Author : Casey Boyle
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809336502

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This book offers a sustained but varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Essays blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as a creation formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space.

Author : H. Beam Piper
Publisher : Perennial Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1531262716

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New Texas: its citizens figure that name about says it all. The Solar League ambassador to the Lone Star Planet has the unenviable task of convincing New Texans that a s'Srauff attack is imminent, and dangerous. Unfortunately it's common knowledge that the s'Srauff are evolved from canine ancestors -- and not a Texan alive is about to be scared of a talking dog! But unless he can get them to act, and fast, there won't be a Texan alive, scared or otherwise!