| Dallas 1963 Contributor(s): Minutaglio, Bill (Read by), Davis, Steven L. (Read by), Messano, Tony (Read by) |
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ISBN: 147898077X ISBN-13: 9781478980773 Publisher: Hachette Book Group OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | American Government - Executive Branch |
| Dewey: 973.9 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.3" W x 5.8" (0.60 lbs) |
| Themes: - Locality - Dallas, Texas - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the early 1960s, Dallas was brewing with political passions and full of extreme and unlikely characters, many of them dead set against a Kennedy presidency--rabid politicos like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; oil baron H. L. Hunt; W. A. Criswell, leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world; and fanatical congressman Bruce Alger; along with a host of gangsters, unsung civil rights leaders, strippers, billionaires, and marauding police. Beginning with the campaign for Kennedy's election and set against a nation in transition, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led numerous friends and aides to warn the president against stopping in Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, this book presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the twentieth century's most significant and terrifying political event. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous political tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical ideology turns ordinary Americans extraordinarily violent. |
Contributor Bio(s): Minutaglio, Bill: - Bill Minutaglio's work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, Outside, and many other publications. He has worked for the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, and San Antonio Express-News and is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including biographies of President George W. Bush, Molly Ivins, and Alberto Gonzales. He also wrote City on Fire, a narrative retelling of the greatest industrial disaster in American history. He lives in Austin, Texas. Davis, Steven L.: -Steven L. Davis is the author of two highly praised books on Texas culture, and his work has appeared in Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, San Antonio Express-News, Southwestern American Literature, and Texas Books in Review. He is a longtime curator at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos, which holds the literary papers of Cormac McCarthy, Sam Shepard, and many other writers. He grew up in Dallas and lives with his family in the Texas Hill Country. |