(SIGNED) Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

(SIGNED) Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

by T. R. Fehrenbach

Hardcover Cloth 761 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Poor. Stated Stated First edition First printing with corresponding number line 1968. Nice tan boards with gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear in unread condition. An unclipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Oversized book; S&H will be adjusted.

Inscribed on first title page

From prehistory right up to the present-a classic, comprehensive, and superbly readable guide to the panoramic saga of Texas history Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds."

Theodore Reed Fehrenbach, Jr. was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission (1987-1991). He graduated from Princeton University in 1947, and had published more than twenty books, including the best seller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.

Fehrenbach also wrote for Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He was known as an authority on Texas, Mexico, and the Comanche people. For almost 30 years, he wrote a weekly column on Sundays for the San Antonio Express-News.