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  • Bill Hobby

    A Life in Journalism and Public Service

    by Don Carleton, Erin L. Purdy ...
    A comprehensive biography of a legendary lieutenant governor.During his five terms as lieutenant governor of Texas, Bill Hobby became one of the most powerful political figures in the state’s history. He was first elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 1972 and served until 1990. Thanks to his brilliance as a political tactician and his personal integrity, Hobby was able to set the Senate’s ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Arthur

    Warrior and King

    by Don Carleton ...
    People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result of extensive consultation with experts across academic disciplines, the author’s researches point to fascinating new conclusions about Arthur’s life. Much of the history of the time was lost because of some kind of natural catastrophe around AD 540. But the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Red Scare

    Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

    by Don Carleton ...
    A history of Houston during the McCarthy era and the community's response to the fear of communism.Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.Praise ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Governor and the Colonel

    A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby

    by Don Carleton ...
    William P. “Will” Hobby Sr. and Oveta Culp Hobby were one of the most influential couples in Texas history. Both were major public figures, with Will serving as governor of Texas and Oveta as the first commander of the Women’s Army Corps and later as the second woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. Together, they built a pioneering media empire centered on the Houston Post and their broadcast ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The House Will Come To Order

    How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics

    by Patrick L. Cox, Michael Phillips ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-handedly dictate the legislative agenda. The House Will Come to Order charts the evolution of the Speaker's role from a relatively obscure office to one of the most powerful in the state. This fascinating account, drawn from the Briscoe Center's oral ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Lay Bare the Heart

    An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement

    by James Farmer ...
    Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s interpretation of Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protest.Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Texas Furniture, Volume Two

    The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880

    by Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Ross Sterling, Texan

    A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company

    by Ross S. Sterling, Editor Kilman ...
    Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of his generation. Driven by a relentless work ethic, he become a wealthy oilman, banker, newspaper publisher, and, from 1931 to 1933, one-term governor of Texas. Sterling was the principal founder of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, which eventually ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • First in Line

    Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

    by Kate Andersen Brower ...
    “An intimate, compulsively readable account of the dynamics that have shaped—and sometimes destroyed—relations at the top of the American political hierarchy.... [and] a valuable addition to the literature of the modern presidency.” — Wall Street JournalFrom the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Hard Times

    An Oral History of the Great Depression

    by Studs Terkel ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" ( Saturday Review).In this "invaluable record" of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nixonland

    The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    “Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” —Jon Meacham“Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know—American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972—into ... Read more

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