Cover photo courtesy of Adam and Laura Clark
Texas Books in Review
Volume XXXIX, Number 1
Spring 2019
Editor's Note | Solstice | by William Jensen
Ben Thompson: Portrait of a Gunfighter | by Thomas C. Bicknell and Chuck Parsons
Review | Don't Take Your Guns to Town | by Joseph Fox
Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film | by Don Graham
Review | Giant's Auteur—George Stevens | by Dick Heaberlin
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State | by Lawrence Wright
Review | Big and Bright | by Joseph McDade
Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop | by Lance Scott Walker
Review | Welcome to the Purple World | by Alan Schaefer
Legends and Life in Texas: Folklore from the Lone Star State in Stories and Song | edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt
Review | If I'm Lying, I'm Dying | by Kathryn Conrad
Redeeming la Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights | by Gabriela González
Review | Refocusing Texas Politics | by John Mckiernan-González
Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center | by William Henry Kellar
Review | Urban Power | by John Mckiernan-González
Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics | by J. Brooks Flippen
Review | Barbarously Large and Final | by Rob Madole
Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts’ Casebook of Horrors | by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale
Review | And Don't Get Me Started On Vampires | by Sara Bechtol
Texas Ranger | by James Patterson and Andrew Bourelle
Review | Return of the White Hat | by William Jensen
The Devil’s Fork | by Bill Wittliff
Review | The End of a Melody | by Michelle Piersol