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Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result.

This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home."

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Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For for over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over the last three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result.

This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year", about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home".

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  • Title Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s
  • Author Gary Cartwright
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
  • Publication date 2000-11-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780292712263 / 029271226X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.07 x 0.73 in (22.91 x 15.42 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Texas, Texas - Social life and customs - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00039297
  • Dewey Decimal Code 976.406

About the author

Gary Cartwright (1934-2017) was a Senior Editor at Texas Monthly in Austin.

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