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Forget the Alamo - The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Paperback)
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Forget the Alamo - The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Paperback)
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List price R471
Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
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A New York Times bestseller! "Lively and absorbing. . ." - The New
York Times Book Review "Engrossing." -Wall Street Journal
"Entertaining and well-researched . . . " -Houston Chronicle Three
noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the
Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for
so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now
coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since
Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its
myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to
Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band
of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence
from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war.
However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively
shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the
Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and
twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of
Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed
from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push
to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively
explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of
Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of
myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for
some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating
whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have
come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a
more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But
we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's
meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years,
even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more
different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and
generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth
into a place that's gotten awfully dark.
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