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“A balanced, unromanticized account [of] America’s great epic.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Sweeping and specific. . . . [Brands] writes the story with
clarity and vigor. . . . Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era
when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible
concept.” –The Washington Post Book World
“[Brands] offers both sides of the Texas story, striking
perspectives from both the revolutionists and the Mexicans who
opposed them. . . . Lone Star Nation combines depth,
de*ion and detail in a magnificent, fascinating book.” –The
Miami Herald
“Extraordinary. . . . A rich story that thrives above all else on
the novelistic depth of character he gives to his subjects.”
–Austin American-Statesman
“Rousing. . . . [Brands] is a master of the ground-view,
narrative history.” –Dallas Morning News
“Brands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular
historian of his generation. . . . There is no denying [his] talent
for clear, cogent and uncluttered prose.” –Chicago
Tribune
“Lively and readable . . . contains vivid portraits.” –Harper’s
Magazine
“The most compelling analysis of the results of the war as well as
the best articulated defense for the motives of [Stephen] Austin,
Sam Houston and the other Texas patriots.” –The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
“Notably clear eyed. . . . [Brands] is conversant with the
intricacies of his subject [as] he describes the contentiousness,
independence and sense of entitlement that eventually turned Texas,
however briefly, into a free and self-contained nation.” –The
New York Times
“Vibrant, energetic, and masterful. . . . Immensely readable.”
–The Washington Times
“Extremely vivid and beautifully written. . . . Brands [is] a
master of de*ion.” –The News & Observer (Raleigh,
NC)
“Gripping. . . . A book that is sweeping and specific in allowing a
reader to be deliciously immersed in the magnificent story. . . .
Even well-versed readers will find new perspective here.” –Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the
genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American
history.
From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic
Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis
and glory, to President Andrew Jackson, whose expansionist
aspirations loomed large in the background, here is the story of
Texas and the outsize figures who shaped its turbulent history.
Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking in
the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad,
its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, and
its day of liberation as an upstart republic, Brands’ lively
history draws on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters to
animate a diverse cast of characters whose adventures, exploits,
and ambitions live on in the very fabric of our nation.
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