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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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TEXAS HISTORY\/BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Ron Rozelle<\/span><\/p>\n

Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas A&M University Press<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1623495862 (Also available as paperback and ebook), 232 pages, $29.95<\/p>\n

December 13, 2017<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Most Texans recall how Gen. Sam Houston was a hero of the 1836 revolution<\/span> that brought Texas independence from Mexico. Some likewise remember that Houston was a key figure in both the Republic of Texas’s formation and Texas becoming America\u2019s twenty-eighth state in 1845.<\/p>\n

But, as Lake Jackson author-historian Ron Rozelle<\/span> highlights in this engrossing examination of Sam Houston\u2019s final years, the great hero\u2019s accomplishments quickly were hurled aside when he tried to stop Texas from leaving the Union and joining the Confederacy in 1861.<\/p>\n

Rozelle writes: \u201cHe had been a general of the highest rank, twice the president of a republic, the governor of two states [Tennessee and Texas], a senator, congressman, official ambassador of and to the tribal nations, and a potentially viable candidate, more than once, for the office of president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

The often-flamboyant Houston also had gained other labels. \u201cHe was called many things in his time: hero, patriot, traitor, firebrand, maverick, Indian lover, genius, drunkard, and liberator.\u201d\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lone Star Lit launches Indiegogo campaign \u201918: Help us showcase more books, more authors, more ways in 2018!<\/h1>\n

Lone Star Literary Life covers the Texas literary scene like no one else,<\/span> week in and week out. Since 2015, we\u2019ve given Texas authors, booksellers, libraries, publishers, and readers a trusted platform of their own. With shrinking coverage devoted to books in mainstream media \u2014 and most of that focused on the same handful of national bestsellers \u2014 where were Texas authors to get noticed, and where were Texas readers to discover the books they crave? We\u2019ve stepped up to make sure the Lone Star State doesn\u2019t lose touch with its rich literary heritage, and that Texas books get their due.<\/p>\n

At the start of our second year, notable Texas literary figures gave us a boost by taking part in a testimonial video, produced by Doug Baum of Waco. We think our case holds up remarkably well \u2014 and we\u2019ve featured it in our 2018 campaign as well. Check out out, below.<\/p>\n

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We hope you’ll be able to spare a tiny bit of your budget to help take our coverage to the next level in 2018. We\u2019ve got some great new books coming up as perks, and some attractive discounts on book promotional packages as well.<\/p>\n

Visit the campaign site at https:\/\/igg.me\/at\/LoneStarLiterary<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks in advance, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\u00a0Happy (Texas) reading in 2018<\/h1>\n

As announced last week, <\/span>\u201cTexas Reads\u201d columnist Glenn Dromgoole is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks (and catching up on some choice reading!)<\/p>\n

>> FROM TEXAS READS, 12.31.17<\/h1>\n

Big names:<\/span> Two best-selling books by Texas-related authors I should have gotten around to this fall, but didn\u2019t, are What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism<\/span> by Dan Rather<\/span> and Elliot Kirschner,<\/span> and Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life<\/span> by Jenna Bush Hager<\/span> and Barbara Pierce Bush.<\/span> I plan to read them early in the new year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I\u2019m going to take a short break from the column. I still have a good stack of Texas books to look through, and more will be arriving soon. I\u2019ll be back in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Happy reading in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> writes about Texas books and authors. Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Author interviews by Kay Ellington<\/span><\/h1>\n

1.7.2018\u00a0 \u201cIf it\u2019s not interesting or compelling, we wouldn\u2019t be doing a story on it\u201d: Veteran TV journalist Steve Stoler on the stories behind the stories<\/h1>\n

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He’s told stories to millions of people during more<\/span> than three decades as a television journalist. Steve Stoler<\/span> had a front-row seat to history as a senior reporter with Dallas\u2019s WFAA, one of the state’s largest television stations, and recently he’s shared his insider\u2019s take in Tonight at Ten.<\/span> This week tells his own story via an email interview with Lone Star Lit.<\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Where did you grow up, Steve, and how do you think your upbringing influenced you?<\/span><\/p>\n

STEVE STOLER: <\/span>I grew up in South Florida (Hollywood), in a community between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The area became a true melting pot of culture. During my childhood, I found people were very accepting of each other. Religion, ethnicity and race didn\u2019t seem to matter to young people. That seemed to change when I went to college at a small university in the deep South.<\/p>\n

What attracted you to journalism and then, specifically to television journalism?<\/p>\n

I did an internship in a newsroom at a Miami television station, WTVJ. I witnessed for the first time what the business was really like. I was intrigued and excited by the possibility of becoming a broadcast journalist. I thought it would be the perfect career for me. It would allow me, as a journalist, to become a torch carrier for truth and at the same time, allow me to use my creativity in how I told my stories.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span>Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 1.7.2018 <\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK<\/span><\/p>\n