{"id":328,"date":"2018-12-31T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:48:13","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

11.1.15\u00a0\u00a0 Photographs relate history of Texas politics<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Chuck Bailey offers an informative and easy-to-read pictorial history<\/span> of Texas politics in his new coffee-table book, Picturing Texas Politics: A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry<\/span><\/a><\/span> (University of Texas Press, $45 hardcover).<\/p>\n

The book, which includes 268 black-and-white photos, is divided into four sections. Chapter 1 covers the Republic of Texas through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Chapter 2 deals with the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapter 3 pictures Texas political leaders from the Depression through World War II. Chapter 4, the largest of the four sections, covers from after WWII to former governor Rick Perry.<\/p>\n

Each photograph is accompanied by a paragraph or two of text summarizing the political figure\u2019s career. Most politicians get one page, with a handful receiving two-page treatments and former president Lyndon Johnson four pages.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of each chapter, historian Patrick Cox<\/span> provides a three- to nine-page essay summarizing the political developments and personalities of that era.<\/p>\n

Chuck Bailey is the coauthor of another pictorial portrait of Texas politics, Texas Political Memorabilia: Buttons, Bumper Stickers, and Broadsides,<\/span><\/a><\/span> published by UT Press in 2007.<\/p>\n

Small-town stories:<\/span> Two Texas authors, Montie Guthrie<\/span> and Terry Keeling,<\/span> have sent me books they\u2019ve recently published full of stories about life in two small Texas towns.<\/p>\n

In Tales Tall and Short: Santa Anna, Texas<\/span><\/a><\/span> (H.V. Chapman & Sons, $15), Guthrie writes about businesses, theaters, churches, personalities, and other historical matters of interest in Santa Anna, which is twenty miles west of Brownwood.<\/p>\n

One story deals with \u201cjackrabbit drives\u201d held in the Depression era to reduce the jackrabbit population, which was a threat to farmers\u2019 crops. Another piece tells about the one-room city jail, no longer used but still standing. His book is available in Santa Anna at Santa Anna Crafts and Gifts and the Texas Ranger Motel.<\/p>\n

Keeling, in his Bits and Pieces: Life in Small Town Texas<\/span> (Lone Star Productions, $16.95), admits that his collection of stories \u201cis probably not going to be of much interest to anyone under fifty,\u201d adding, \u201cbut that\u2019s okay. What do they know, anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n

His focus primarily is on relatives and people he knew while growing up in Leon County, northeast of Bryan. A story about \u201cAnimals and Pets I Have Known\u201d includes a picture and tale about the author\u2019s first pet, a goat. Keeling\u2019s Uncle Runt claimed to be the best left-handed baseball pitcher in the state in his heyday.<\/p>\n

Keeling also wrote Johnnie Loves Fannie: Letters from Long Ago<\/span> (Lone Star Productions, $10.95), based on love letters from his grandfather to his grandmother in 1903. Keeling can be reached at (903) 536-7708.<\/p>\n

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

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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