{"id":530,"date":"2018-12-31T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:40:57","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=530","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

5.8.16\u00a0\u00a0 Historian explores Sam Houston\u2019s leadership qualities<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Bill O\u2019Neal of Carthage, the official Texas state historian for the past four years,<\/span> has written Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Eakin Press, $19.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

\u201cSam Houston radiated leadership,\u201d O\u2019Neal writes. \u201cPhysically imposing and a man of powerful convictions, Houston gravitated to leadership roles throughout his adventurous life.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it was in Texas, O\u2019Neal points out, where everything came together. \u201cDuring the Texas Revolution, all of Houston\u2019s leadership qualities \u2014 courage, decisiveness, powers of persuasion, physical stamina, military experience, willingness to shoulder vast responsibilities \u2013 were mined to their fullest extent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book grew out of a lecture O\u2019Neal delivered at the Bob Bullock Texas State Museum after he was appointed Texas State Historian and covers Houston\u2019s life in fifteen chapters, beginning with \u201cThe Making of a Leader,\u201d continuing through Houston\u2019s ups and downs in public and private life. By Chapter 7, Houston has come to Texas, where he commanded the successful revolution and became president, senator, and governor before dying on July 26, 1863, his final words being \u201cTexas \u2014 Texas \u2014 Margaret.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neal concludes with the chapter \u201cRemembering a Leader\u201d and a list of leadership principles that shaped Houston\u2019s life as a leader. O\u2019Neal, author of more than forty books, was the 2015 recipient of the A. C. Greene Award given annually to a distinguished Texas author at the West Texas Book Festival.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Joe Lansdale: <\/span>Hap and Leonard<\/span> is the title of a crime-fighting series that debuted this spring on the Sundance cable channel, based on two of Joe R. Lansdale\u2019s<\/span> favorite fictional characters, straight white liberal Hap Collins and gay black conservative Leonard Pine.<\/p>\n

As a way of introducing the unusual duo to viewers, Tachyon Publications produced a 240-page paperback collection of short stories and novellas under the title Hap and Leonard<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($15.95). If you haven\u2019t read any of the dozen or so Hap and Leonard novels, start here. You\u2019ll no doubt want to read more.<\/p>\n

The first Hap and Leonard mystery, Savage Season,<\/span> came out in 1990, and the most recent, Honky Tonk Samurai, was published this year. As with most of Lansdale\u2019s entertaining but often violent novels, reader discretion is advised because of strong language.<\/p>\n

Lansdale, a prolific author with dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories in several genres, is writer in residence at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Read more on his website, joerlansdale.com.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is More Civility, Please. <\/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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