{"id":1343,"date":"2018-12-31T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:48:30","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

6.10.2018\u00a0 Astros helped revive Houston\u2019s spirits after Harvey<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Houston Chronicle editorial writer and columnist Joe Holley<\/span> relives the Houston Astros\u2019 2017 World Series championship and the city of Houston\u2019s rebound from Hurricane Harvey in an\u00a0 uplifting account, Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Hachette Books, $27 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Holley retraces the seven games of the World Series in play-by-play, inning-by-inning drama, weaving it into the larger story of how the Astros lifted the spirits of a devastated city, and how city residents returned the favor by taking the team into their hearts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Astros\u2019 first-ever World Series victory,\u201d Holley writes, \u201cis a baseball story to be sure, but it\u2019s so much more than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story of a major American city\u2026 winning Americans\u2019 hearts because of its grace and goodwill in response to pain and hardship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the story of a team of likeable, refreshingly good-natured guys who each wore a \u2018Houston Strong\u2019 patch on their jerseys and meant it. When Houston was down, they picked the city up and carried it. They brought hope during a dark time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Houston Astros \u2014 and the Houston people \u2014 gained a lot of fans last year through trial and triumph as residents literally fought for their lives and then cheered their team to unprecedented success.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoustonians young and old, native and new, learned they were strong and more resilient than they might have expected,\u201d Holley writes. \u201cThey discovered wells of compassion and kindness in themselves they might not have known about. At a moment of crisis, they did themselves proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holley is also the author of a biography of Sammy Baugh \u2014 Slingin\u2019 Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Biography:<\/span> John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King<\/span> by Texas State Historian Bill O\u2019Neal<\/span> offers a concise biography (140 pages) of the colorful and influential cattle baron who at one time, O\u2019Neal writes, owned more cattle than any person in America (Eakin Press, $19.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

Chisum (not to be confused with Jesse Chisholm, for whom the Chisholm Trail was named) moved his herds west from Texas to New Mexico and, by the time he died at age 60 in 1884, he was known as the \u201cCattle King of the Pecos\u201d and even the \u201cCattle King of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Wayne played the cattleman in the 1970 movie Chisum<\/span> about the Lincoln County War of 1878.<\/p>\n

Historical fiction:<\/span> Lamar\u2019s Folly<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr<\/span> is a historical novel based on the life and actions of the second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, a political and personal enemy of Sam Houston and considered the \u201cFather of Education\u201d in Texas (Texas Tech University Press, $24.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

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

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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