"Gary Cartwright has long been an important Texas writer, one of
the finest journalists the state has ever produced, and all of his
strengths are on vivid display in this collection." -- Stephen
Harrigan
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 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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