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Texas Literary Outlaws - Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond (Paperback)
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Texas Literary Outlaws - Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond (Paperback)
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At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart
from Texas's conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad
Dogs, these six writers-Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee
Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent-closely
observed the effects of the Vietnam War; the Kennedy assassination;
the rapid population shift from rural to urban environments; Lyndon
Johnson's rise to national prominence; the Civil Rights Movement;
Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys; Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker
and the new Outlaw music scene; the birth of a Texas film industry;
Texas Monthly magazine; the flowering of "Texas Chic"; and Ann
Richards's election as governor. In Texas Literary Outlaws, Steven
L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave
a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period
of rapid social change. Despite their popular image, the Mad Dogs
were deadly serious as they turned their gaze on their home state,
and they chronicled Texas culture with daring, wit, and
sophistication.
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