Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth /
Burrough, Bryan, 1961-
Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth / Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. - Large print edition. - 625 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction . - Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-621).
Bloody Texas -- Americans, their cotton, and who picked it -- American middle finger, extended -- President Santana is friendly to Texas..." -- war dogs -- San Antonio -- worst kind of victory -- Countdown -- final days -- battle of the Alamo -- first draft of history -- Remember the Alamo? -- second battle of the Alamo -- White man's Alamo -- Alamo goes global -- Alamo supremacists -- rise of Alamo revisionism -- Revisionism unleashed -- Alamo under siege -- sisters of spite -- "This politically incorrect nonsense" -- Alamo reimagined -- problem with Phil -- Epilogue: Another battle of the Alamo -- Afterword: We are what we remember. The The "The The The The The A The The The The The The The The The
"There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events ... owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten or twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict arising from Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo ... explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows us how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Cover.
9781432892852 1432892851
Slavery--History--Texas--19th century.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--History.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Folklore.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836.
Large type books.
Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth / Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. - Large print edition. - 625 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction . - Thorndike Press large print history fact and fiction. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-621).
Bloody Texas -- Americans, their cotton, and who picked it -- American middle finger, extended -- President Santana is friendly to Texas..." -- war dogs -- San Antonio -- worst kind of victory -- Countdown -- final days -- battle of the Alamo -- first draft of history -- Remember the Alamo? -- second battle of the Alamo -- White man's Alamo -- Alamo goes global -- Alamo supremacists -- rise of Alamo revisionism -- Revisionism unleashed -- Alamo under siege -- sisters of spite -- "This politically incorrect nonsense" -- Alamo reimagined -- problem with Phil -- Epilogue: Another battle of the Alamo -- Afterword: We are what we remember. The The "The The The The The A The The The The The The The The The
"There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events ... owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten or twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict arising from Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo ... explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows us how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Cover.
9781432892852 1432892851
Slavery--History--Texas--19th century.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--History.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Folklore.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)--Siege, 1836.
Large type books.