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Texas Books in Review

Volume XXVIII, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2008-09)



CONTENTS


1 The Cultural Divide Mark Busby and
Dick Heaberlin
     
2 A Walk Across Texas by Jon McConal
Paddling the Guadalupe by Wayne H. McAlister
Jane Manaster
     
3 The Border: Exploring the U.S.-Mexican Divide
by David J. Danelo
Jane Manaster
     
4 Flash Floods in Texas by Jonathan Burnett Susan Hanson
     
5 Oh Brother, How They Played the Game:
The Story of Texas’ Greatest All-Brothers Baseball Team

by Carlton Stowers
Brandon Shuler
     
6 Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football
by Adam Jones
Dave Oliphant
     
8 Texas Football Legends: Greats of the Game
by Carlton Stowers
Joseph McDade
     
9 Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights
of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty

by Jeff Pearlman
Joseph McDade
     
10 A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—
The Last Great Battle of the American West

by James Donovan
Clay Reynolds
     
12 A White House Diary by Lady Bird Johnson John S. Hill
     
13 The History of Texas Music by Gary Hartman Kathleen Hudson
     
14 Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience
edited by Louis G. Mendoza and Toni Nelson Herrera
Emmy Pérez
     
15 Notes from Texas: On Writing in the Lone Star State
edited by W. C. Jameson
Mark Busby
     
16 The Last Good Detective Writer:
Remembering Jim Crumley
Dick Holland
     
18 descant: Fifty Years edited by Dave Kuhne,
Daniel E. Williams, Charlotte Hogg, and Charlotte Willis
Sybil Pittman Estess
     
19 Why I Came West: A Memoir by Rick Bass Herb Thompson
     
20 Pointing a New Canon at the Pantheon:
A Conversation with Eric Miles Williamson
Brandon Shuler
     
22 In These Latitudes: Ten Contemporary Poets
edited by Robert Bonazzi
Sybil Pittman Estess
     
27 Splinterville: A Novella by Cliff Hudder Nancy Romig


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Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin

Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss

Editorial Associate
Linda Busby

Editorial Assistant/Business Manager
Tammy Gonzales

Editorial Interns
Liz Cross
Jack David
Amber Drown
Val Griffin
Heather Robinson
Janis E. Head Shanks
Laura Wilson
Damon Wright
Laura Young

Student Assistants
Melody Edwards
Ricky Martinez
Cynthia Rodriguez

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

 
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