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

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Cartoonist has a little fun with Texas history<\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Readers of all ages can learn something about Texas history <\/span>\u2014 and have fun doing it \u2014 in Merkel author Roger Moore\u2019s<\/span> book of Texas history cartoons, Texas, My Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Great Texas Line Press, $5.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

Moore, whose cartoons appear in about twenty-five weekly newspapers, takes a fact or piece of trivia from Texas history and has a little fun with it.<\/p>\n

For example, on April 14, 1958, Texas pianist Van Cliburn won a major international piano competition in Russia. The cartoon has Cliburn announcing to the audience, \u201cFor my encore, I\u2019d like to do \u2018Waltz Across Texas\u2019 in B-flat.\u201d On Aug. 2, 1973, the infamous Chicken Ranch brothel closed in LaGrange. The cartoon has a couple showing up and telling the madam, \u201cWe\u2019ve come for the close-out prices on them chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another entry, Moore notes that \u201cup to 200 Texas historical markers are added yearly, though not all applications are approved.\u201d The cartoon has a wife\u2019s application being turned down for \u201cTexas\u2019 Most Lazy Man Lives Here.\u201d The book includes some interesting but not well known facts, such as: When the nine-banded armadillo \u2014 the state\u2019s official small mammal \u2014 gives birth, she always has four identical offspring. Here\u2019s another: The Popeye cartoon character got his start in Texas.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s cartoons also appear throughout the Texas Correct Calendar<\/span> he publishes every year. The calendar begins with March 2 \u2014 Texas Independence Day \u2014 instead of the more traditional January 1.<\/p>\n

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The University of Texas Press has published a collection of scholarly essays examining LBJ\u2019s Neglected Legacy: How Lyndon Johnson Reshaped Domestic Polity & Government<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($29.95 paperback, 480 pages).<\/p>\n

Robert H. Wilson<\/span> (UT), Norman Glickman<\/span> (Rutgers), and Laurence E. Lynn Jr<\/span>. (formerly UT, now University of Chicago) edited the volume and contributed the introductory and concluding essays. Thirteen other scholars wrote essays examining LBJ\u2019s legacy in civil rights, immigration, social welfare, education, health, environment, cities, science, and other areas of public policy.<\/p>\n

Robert Dallek,<\/span> author of Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times<\/span> (1999), argues that despite his failures in Vietnam, Johnson eventually will be remembered as \u201cone of those great humane presidents who helped humanize the American industrial system.\u201d A recent insidegov.com ranking of the thirteen modern-day presidents, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt, put LBJ at the top of the list.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

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

Are you ready for some football (books)?<\/h1>\n

Lone Star Literary Life\u2019s Best Texas Football Books<\/span> special section kicks off today, Sun., Aug. 9, 2015.<\/p>\n

Two-a-days, the Twelfth Man, and the Cotton Bowl are just some of the iconic touchstones of Texas culture and by extension Lone Star literature.<\/p>\n

On Sun., Aug. 9, we pay tribute to the best Texas football books by interviewing H. G. \u201cBuzz\u201d Bissinger,<\/span> author of Friday Night Lights,<\/span> as his publisher releases the 25th anniversary edition of the book.<\/p>\n

>> READ MORE<\/span><\/p>\n

Bissinger Texas events for 25th Anniversary Friday Night Lights<\/h1>\n

In conjunction with Da Capo Press’s<\/span> Aug. 11 publication of the 25th anniversary edition of\u00a0 Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream<\/span><\/a><\/span> author H. G. \u201cBuzz\u201d Bissinger<\/span> returns to Texas for a series of events. The publisher announced the following schedule this week:<\/p>\n

Buzz Bissinger Book Events, Fall 2015<\/span><\/p>\n