“A balanced, unromanticized account [of] America’s great epic.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Sweeping and specific. . . . [Brands] writes the story with
clarity and vigor. . . . Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era
when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible
concept.” –The Washington Post Book World
“[Brands] offers both sides of the Texas story, striking
perspectives from both the revolutionists and the Mexicans who
opposed them. . . . Lone Star Nation combi
內容簡介：
In Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W.
來源：香港大書城megBookStore,http://www.megbook.com.hk Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the
genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American
history.
From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic
Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis
and glory, to President Andrew Jackson, whose expansionist
aspirations loomed large in the background, here is the story of
Texas and the outsize figures who shaped its turbulent history.
Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking in
the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad,
its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, and
its day of liberation as an upstart republic, Brands’ lively
history draws on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters to
animate a diverse cast of characters whose adventures, exploits,
and ambitions live on in the very fabric of our nation.
關於作者：
H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor
of American history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the
author of many books, among them The First American: The Life
and Times of Benjamin Franklin, which was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award;
T.R.: The Last Romantic, a critically acclaimed
biography of Theodore Roosevelt; and The Age of Gold,
a celebrated history of the California Gold Rush. He lives in
Austin, Texas.
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