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Texas Books in Review
Volume XXVII, Nos. 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 2007)
CONTENTS
| 1 | And the Winners Are... | Mark
Busby and Dick Heaberlin |
| 2 | A
Hanging in Nacogdoches: Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas’s Oldest Town, 1870-1916 by Gary B. Borders The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP by Patricia Bernstein Lethal Injection: Capital Punishment in Texas During the Modern Era by Jon Sorensen and Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim |
Paul M. Lucko |
| 4 | “Colored Men” and “Hombres
Aquí”: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering edited by Michael A. Olivas |
Jay Martin |
| 6 | Prairie Time: A Blackland Portrait by Matt White | Betty Wiesepape |
| 7 | Birdlife of Houston, Galveston,
and the Upper Texas Coast by Ted L. Eubanks Jr., Robert A. Behrstock, and Ron J. Weeks |
Jane Manaster |
| 8 | Kindler of Souls: Rabbi Henry
Cohen of Texas by Rabbi Henry Cohen II |
Clay Stevens |
| 9 | Weeping Mary by O. Rufus Lovett | James Wright |
| 10 | Russell Lee Photographs: Images from the Russell Lee Collection at the Center for American History by Russell Lee, photographs arranged by Linda Peterson |
Andrew Jones |
| 12 | A Book of Photographs from
Lonesome Dove by Bill Wittliff |
Mark Busby |
| 13 | Windows into My World: Latino
Youth Write Their Lives edited by Sarah Cortez |
David Meischen |
| 14 | South Texas Notes | Emmy Pérez |
| 16 | Literary Austin edited by Don Graham | Steve Davis |
| 17 | Of Snakes and Sex and Playing
in the Rain: Random Thoughts on Harmful Things by Clay Reynolds |
Chris Ellery |
| 18 | Sandhills Boy: The Winding
Trail of a Texas Writer by Elmer Kelton |
Mary Ellen Hartje |
| 19 | Pedrito’s
World by Arturo
O. Martínez Journey to San Jacinto by Melodie A. Cuate |
Jane Manaster |
| 20 | Texas Poet Laureate: A Conversation with Larry D. Thomas | Paul Ruffin |
| 22 | Come Sundown by Mike Blakely | Jeff Jones |
| 23 | The King of Colored Town by Darryl Wimberley | Clay Reynolds |
Texas Books in Review (ISSN 0739-3202) is published by the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University-San Marcos. Annual subscription is $14.00.
Address all correspondence to:
Texas Books in Review
Center for the Study of the Southwest
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San Marcos, TX 78666
Copyright © 2007 by the Center for the Study of the Southwest. TBR is indexed in the Texas Index. Texas State is a member of the Texas State University System.
Cover photograph of Hall of State by Mark Busby.
Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin
Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss
Editorial Associate
Linda Busby
Editorial Assistant/Business Manager
Tammy Gonzales
Editorial Interns
David Meischen
Clay Stevens
Student Assistants
Melody Edwards
Marisa Martin
Cynthia Rodriguez
Krystle Villanueva
Editors at Large
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
Tom Pilkington
Contributing Editors
Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature
Don Graham
Film
Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections
Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design
Regional Editors
Patrick Bennett
West Texas
Dave Oliphant
Austin
Emmy Pérez
South Texas
Dale L. Walker
Trans-Pecos
Robert Phillips
Houston