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Lone Star Nation: How a Ragtag Army of Courageous Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence by H. W. Brands

From the critically acclaimed author of T.R. and the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE FIRST AMERICAN - biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin - comes a gripping, true story about Texas' turbulent journey to statehood. Filled with a colorful cast of characters, including the state's reluctant founder Stephen Austen, the Mexican generalissimo and dictator Santa Ana, the mythologized defenders of Alamo - James Bowie, William Travis, and Davy Crockett - as well as the slaves, squatters, women and children all unmentioned in the traditional histories, this fascinating account of one of the most pivotal eras in American history is told with Brands' characteristic eye to fact and compelling story-telling.



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This detailed account of the history and personalities that gained Texas independence in 1836 is quite an earful. The author goes way back into the ancestry of Houston and Austin families, gives a nice view of Jacksonian politics (Sam Houston was a protégé of Andrew Jackson), and lets his audience in on the story of Mexican politics. All of this is quite fascinating, and at the end one marvels at the miracle of Texas gaining its independence and the tragedies that resulted from it in 1846 and then in 1861. Don Leslie gives a splendid and energetic reading. He does well with the narrative and renders credible accents for the quotations, which are often lengthy. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

The New Yorker ...

"Enchanting."

James Grant, Wall Street Journal...

"A Franklin to savor."

Alan Taylor, The New Republic...

"In his clear and sprightly biography, H. W. Brands . . . recovers the actual Franklin who lived--before his memory became a bourgeois icon and was later, like all icons, trivialized."

Bob Trimble, Dallas Morning News...

"Benjamin Franklin's life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands."

Richard Norton Smith, author of the Pulitzer-Prize finalist Thomas E. Dewey and His Times and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation...

"H. W. Brands is a master storyteller"

Janet Maslin, New York Times...

Critical Acclaim for the celebrated The Age of Gold

"An engrossing, multifaceted history. . . . Its author, like the miners of the gold rush themselves, leaves no stone unturned."

Los Angeles Times...

"Dazzling. . . . Even California reviewers have gritted their teeth and handed Brands, an acclaimed popular biographer of Benjamin Franklin, some Texas-size praise."

San Francisco Chronicle...

"There's only one thing to say about a book that brings the twin touchstones of T.R.'s vigor and Franklin's humor to bear on the Golden State, and that's 'Eureka!'"

David McCullough, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of John Adams...

"A fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history."

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