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Title: A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory by Randy Roberts, James S. Olson ISBN: 0-7432-1233-9 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A comprehensive look at the Alamo and its myth
Comment: This is a very enjoyable book that both tells the story of the siege and battle of the Alamo and the development of the myth and symbol of the Alamo in Texan and American memory. The account of the Texas revolution and siege are balanced and scrupulous, carefully distinguishing between what we know and we infer. That account makes up the first half of the book. The second half relates the cultural history of Alamo preservation and its place in the current "culture wars" and revisionist history. An interesting account of the making of both the Disney "Davy Crockett" series and John Wayne's "The Alamo" feature in this latter half. I recommend the book highly. The history of the siege and battle is fairer and more balanced here than in Jeff Long's "Duel of Eagles."
Rating: 5
Summary: Davy, Mickey & the Duke
Comment: This book is like a recipe for goulash; you just throw everything in it and see how it turns out. Actually, it's a very good book, although it tends to be overwritten in places and there are one or two incorrect dates. It gives a concise history of Mexico in the early part of the 19th century leading up to the Texas War for Independence, and what followed. Everything is presented quite clearly, and you can understand how things happened, and why they happened. The actual Alamo seige and battle pass fairly quickly, because that's how it was in reality. I found the later history extremely interesting, and combining LBJ's father, Walt Disney, John Wayne, and numerous others in the story was an excellent decision on the part of the authors. I'm of the generation raised on Davy Crockett, and my friends and I recreated the Alamo battle countless times on the cinderblock wall in my back yard, each of us taking turns as Davy. If nothing else, Disney's film of Crockett's life awakened in me the idea of history as something interesting, and worth studying. I've done that ever since, and the authors show that the Alamo is ingrained in our national consciousness because of Uncle Walt primarily, and also John Wayne's movie, which I vividly remember seeing as a young teenager. To those of a new generation, who don't have those memories of the Alamo films, this book is well worth reading, and I highly recommend it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Typical Santa Anna and Mexican stereotypes revisited
Comment: I was assigned to read Line in the Sand for a graduate class and unfortunately it quickly turned sour. It read like a W.P.Webb history book of the 1950's where Mexicans are blood thirsty and Santa Anna is compared to Cortez himself. There is little of nothing this book can offer a Tejano historian, it is just a another book insulting Mexicans and letting us all know how great the defenders of the Alamo were.
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Title: Constructing the American Past, Volume I (4th Edition) by Elliot J. Gorn, Randy W. Roberts, Terry D. Bilhartz ISBN: 0321093429 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 21 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $46.67 |
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Title: Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U. S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Richard V. Francaviglia, Douglas W. Richmond ISBN: 0875652328 Publisher: Texas Christian Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The History of Texas by Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De Leon, Gregg Cantrell ISBN: 0882959662 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.95 |
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Title: Three Roads to the Alamo : The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis by William C. Davis ISBN: 0060930942 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Public Planet Books) by Sanford Levinson ISBN: 082232220X Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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