TBR Spring 2015 | Table of Contents

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Texas Books in Review

Volume XXXV, Number 1
Spring 2015

Editors Note | The Day The Music Died | by William Jensen

Broke, Not Broken: Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War | by Broadus Spivey and Jesse Sublett 
Review | Banking On It | by Michael Ariens

Discovering Texas History | Edited by Brude A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary C. Wintz
Review | True Texas | by Jesús F. de la Teja

The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again | by John T. Davis
Review | Let's Rock! | by Jason Mellard

Homegrown: Austin Music Posters, 1967 to 1982 | edited by Alan Schaefer
Review | Going to the Show | by Travis Stimeling\

Red State: An Insider’s Story of How the GOP Came to Dominate Texas Politics | by Wayne Thorburn
Review | The Elephant in the Room | by Steven L. Davis

The Purse Bearer: A Novel of Love, Lust and Texas Politics | by Joe Holley
Review | Texas For President | by Joe McDade

The Cowtown Circle | by Dave Oliphant
Review | Poetic License | by Caitlin McCrory

See How Small | by Scott Blackwood
Review | Saved | by William Jensen

Bragging Rights: the Dallas-Houston Rivalry | by Carolyn Kneese, John DeMers, and Lynn Ashby
Review | What About San Antonio? | by Joseph Fox

Dancin’ in Anson: A History of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball | by Paul H. Carlson
Review | Boogie Shoes | by Dorothy Lawrenson

Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas | by Joyce Gibson Roach
Review | Short-Sighted | by Christian Wallace

The Devil’s Backbone | by Bill Wittliff
Review | Back in the Saddle Again | by Lawton Cook

The Astrodome: Building an American Spectacle | by James Gast
Review | “The Judge" and the Dome | by James Wright

On the Other Side of the Bridge | By Ray Villareal
Review | The Catcher In The Creosote | by Christian Wright