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“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve”
(The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the
disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas,
featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews,
from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author
of Manson and The Road to Jonestown. For the first time in thirty
years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the
initial February 28, 1993, Waco raid speak on the record about the
poor decisions of their commanders that led to this deadly
confrontation. The revelations in this book include why the FBI
chose to end the siege with the use of CS gas; how both ATF and FBI
officials tried and failed to cover up their agencies’ mistakes;
where David Koresh plagiarized his infamous prophecies; and direct
links between the Branch Davidian tragedy and the modern militia
movement in America. Notorious conspiracist Alex Jones is a part of
the Waco story. So much is new and stunning. Guinn puts you
alongside the ATF agents as they embarked on the disastrous initial
assault, unaware that the Davidians knew they were coming and were
armed and prepared to resist. His you-are-there narrative continues
to the final assault and its momentous consequences. Drawing on
this new information, including several eyewitness accounts, Guinn
again does what he did with his bestselling books about Charles
Manson and Jim Jones, revealing “gripping” (Houston Chronicle)
new details about a story that we thought we knew.
A "New York Times "bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive,
myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American
history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and
McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about.
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone,
Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a
deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how
future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc
Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of
a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in
black ones. It's a colorful story--but the truth is even better.
Drawing on new material from private collections--including
diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp's own hand-drawn sketch of the
shootout's conclusion--as well as archival research, Jeff Guinn
gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture
of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why
The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch
Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen
documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative
reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn. Waco breaks new ground
that will change the perception of the dramatic events that
happened in Waco, Texas, in 1993. Among other revelations, the book
shows how David Koresh directly based his famous End Time
prophecies on the writings of a previous "prophet" laying claim to
the name Koresh-Cyrus Teed, in Fort Myers, Florida, in the late
1890s. More than a dozen former AFT agents who participated in the
initial February 28, 1993 raid on Mount Carmel speak for the first
time on the record about the poor decisions of their raid
commanders that led to this deadly confrontation. They also
provided Guinn with documents and photographs that have never been
published. An FBI agent/analyst who was involved in the
fifty-one-day siege offers fresh information about why the FBI
agent in charge chose to end the siege with the use of CS gas and
about a failed FBI cover-up afterward. There is also documentation
of the direct links between the Branch Davidian tragedy and the
modern militia movement in America-notorious conspiracist Alex
Jones is a part of the Waco story. Jeff Guinn puts you right
alongside the ATF agents as they embarked on the disastrous initial
assault, unaware that the Davidians knew they were coming and were
armed and prepared to resist-which the agents had been told would
not happen. Drawing on new eyewitness accounts, Jeff Guinn again
does what he did with his bestselling books about Charles Manson
and Jim Jones, shedding new light on a story that everyone thinks
they know.
An "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the
"Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen.
John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue
in the Southwestern US to this day. Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the
Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde,
Charles Manson, and Jim Jones) tells the "riveting and supremely
entertaining narrative" (S.C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling
author of Empire of the Summer Moon) of Pancho Villa's bloody raid
on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the
US. The "Punitive Expedition" was launched in retaliation under
Pershing's command and brought together the Army, National Guard,
and the Texas Rangers-who were little more than organized
vigilantes with a profound dislike of Mexicans on both sides of the
border. Opposing this motley military brigade was Villa, a
guerrilla fighter who commanded an ever-changing force of
conscripts in northern Mexico. The American expedition was the last
action by the legendary African American "Buffalo Soldiers." It was
also the first time the Army used automobiles and trucks, which
were of limited value in Mexico, a country with no paved roads or
gas stations. Curtiss Jenny airplanes did reconnaissance, another
first. One era of warfare was coming to a close as another was
beginning. But despite some bloody encounters, the Punitive
Expedition eventually withdrew without capturing Villa. Today
Anglos and Latinos in Columbus, New Mexico, where Villa's raid took
place, commemorate those events, but with differing emotions. And
although the bloodshed has ended, the US-Mexico border remains as
vexed and volatile an issue as ever.
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history"
(Booklist)-the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison-whose annual
summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made
the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford
and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and
toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire
maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and
decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their
summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame
made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds
traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this
elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the
conditions of America's roadways and improve the practicality of
automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even
worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as
cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became
a desired element of American life. The Vagabonds is "a portrait of
America's burgeoning love affair with the automobile" (NPR) but it
also sheds light on the important relationship between the older
Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous
inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and
magnified Ford's reputation, even as Edison's diminished. The
automobile would transform the American landscape, the American
economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal
moment in history to vivid life.
The "New York Times" bestselling, authoritative account of the life
of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and
previously unpublished photographs: "A riveting, almost Dickensian
narrative...four stars" ("People").
More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female
commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon
Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that author Jeff
Guinn traces back to Manson's childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson's
sister and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated
with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even some members
of the Manson family have provided new information about Manson's
life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of the Tate
murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person
near the scene of the crime was spared.
"Manson" puts the killer in the context of the turbulent late
sixties, an era of race riots and street protests when authority in
all its forms was under siege. Guinn shows us how Manson created
and refined his message to fit the times, persuading confused young
women (and a few men) that he had the solutions to their problems.
At the same time he used them to pursue his long-standing musical
ambitions. His frustrated ambitions, combined with his bizarre
race-war obsession, would have lethal consequences.
Guinn's book is a "tour de force of a biography..."Manson" stands
as a definitive work: important for students of criminology, human
behavior, popular culture, music, psychopathology, and
sociopathology...and compulsively readable" (Ann Rule, "The New
York Times Book Review").
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Fast Copy (Paperback)
Jeff Guinn; Foreword by Sally Jenkins
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In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton's father lures her from a New York job
with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that
she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings
along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to
whom she is constantly explaining Texas. Ted will run Ben
Throckmorton's radio station, KVAT, where Booty and Them Others
sing in rivalry with the better known WBAP Light Crust Doughboys.
In Texas, it's the middle of the Depression and the Drought. And
Prohibition is barely over, liquor still a controversy. Every city
has its hobo camp, and Claybelle has the Star of Hope Mission. But
it is also the time of new oil money, high living, infidelity, and
tangled love triangles. Betsy and Ted chain-smoke and drink often
and long, they wouldn't miss a Paschal High School or TCU football
game, they party at the Casino on Jacksboro Highway, and dine at
Claybelle's Shadylawn Country Club. Betsy is a serious journalist
though, and she sets out to change the paper, clashing with the
managing editor when she claims international not state news
belongs on page one. She clashes with the columnists when she tries
to sharpen their leads. The Texas Murder Machine becomes her big
story, when she suspects that Texas Rangers may be killing innocent
young men to collect rewards offered by the Texas Bankers
Association. Betsy's journalistic determination leads to a personal
tragedy that changes her life forever--and makes her a determined,
relentless newswoman. Fast Copy is a page-turner that combines
romantic comedy with the best of the thriller genre. But it's much
more. Dan Jenkins captures Texas in the mid-1930s with a clarity
that brings it alive, and his affection for Texas, Fort Worth, and
TCU are revealed on every page. Only a native like Jenkins would
include the minute details of a TCU-SMU game, the new zephyr
stainless steel railroad train, the T&P railroad station, the
Fort Worth Cats, and LeGrave Field. His portrait of Claybelle and
its leading society folks is tongue-in-cheek funny and right on the
mark. Texans should treasure this book for years to come.
Bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with
surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two
kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly
traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more
important, fame. "Go Down Together "has it all--true romance,
rebellion against authority, bullets flying, cars crashing, and, in
the end, a dramatic death at the hands of a celebrity lawman.
This is the real story of Bonnie and Clyde and their troubled
times, delivered with cinematic sweep by a masterful storyteller.
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Manson (Paperback)
Jeff Guinn
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After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify
and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American
history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed
nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing
on new information, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the
definitive story of how this ordinary delinquent became a murderer.
Mansonhelps us understand what obsessed him and, most terrifying of
all, how he managed to persuade others to kill. Guinn interviewed
Manson's sister and cousin, neither of whom has ever previously
cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and even
some members of the Manson Family have provided new information
about Manson's life. Guinn has made discoveries about the night of
the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one
person on the property was spared. There are even photographs of
Manson's childhood and youth that have never previouslybeen seen
outside private family albums. Putting Manson in the context of his
times, the turbulent end of the Sixties, Guinn shows how Manson
represented the dark side of a generation. He came to Los Angeles
hoping to get a recording contract, and the murders were directly
related to his musical ambitions, although he cloaked them in a
bizarre race-war theory. He was, in the words of one person who
knew him, just like many other rock star wannabes-except that he
was a killer.
2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime “A thoroughly
readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and
his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive
story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown
Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the
New York Times bestselling author of Manson. In the 1950s, a young
Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of
the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he
was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones
moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California, where he
got involved in electoral politics and became a prominent Bay Area
leader. But underneath the surface lurked a terrible darkness. In
this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from
his early days as an idealistic minister to a secret life of
extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing,
before the fateful decision to move almost a thousand of his
followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South
America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading
to the fatal day in November, 1978 when more than nine hundred
people died—including almost three hundred infants and
children—after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink.
Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case,
including material released during the course of his research. He
traveled to Jones’s Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people
never previously interviewed, and uncovered fresh information from
Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the
same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was
murdered on Jones’s orders. The Road to Jonestown is “the most
complete picture to date of this tragic saga, and of the man who
engineered it…The result is a disturbing portrait of evil—and a
compassionate memorial to those taken in by Jones’s malign
charisma” (San Francisco Chronicle).
From 1889 to 1964, the Fort Worth Panthers--unofficially nicknamed
and always known as the Cats--represented the essence of baseball
in America. In their early seasons they reflected the outraged
pride of the South and West in a bitter rivalry with the
northeastern baseball powers, a regional disaffection whose roots
stretched back to the Civil War. (The first official baseball game
in Texas was played just after the war; the competing Texas teams
were nicknamed the Stonewall Jacksons and the R. E. Lees). The Cats
franchise was finally dissolved when major league baseball
completed its national expansion by placing a team in nearby
Arlington.
In between, the Cats set professional sports records that have
never been equaled, including winning the Texas League title six
years in a row and establishing themselves as perhaps the most
famous minor league team in baseball history. From vintage Panthers
such as power-hitting first baseman Clarence "Big Boy" Kraft and
colorful Hall-of-Fame manager Rogers Hornsby to more modern Cats
heroes such as Duke Snider, Carl Erskine, and Maury Wills, Fort
Worth and the baseball-obsessed Southwest formed a high profile
partnership that even survived a season when the spectator stands
burned one day and the playing field was flooded a week later. Cats
fans wouldn't be denied; they sat around the field on folding
chairs, and no games were postponed.
Partially oral history, "When Panthers Roared" includes interviews
with baseball greats Hank Aaron, Wally Moon, Dick Williams, Maury
Wills, and co-author Bobby Bragan. Williams and Wills were Cats
mainstays; Bragan managed the team during its great post-WW II
years when baseball guru Branch Rickey made Fort Worth part of the
Brooklyn Dodger farm system and stocked it with his finest young
athletes.
But during the Cats heyday, there were just sixteen major league
teams who played out of ten U.S. cities. "When Panthers Roared"
captures the excitement and pride the minor-league Cats brought to
Texas and the Southwest. It was a time when, Bobby Bragan insists,
"any man lucky enough to be a Fort Worth Cat was as proud of that
as he would have been to play for the New York Yankees."
"When Panthers Roared" is lavishly illustrated through the
cooperation of Mark Presswood, whose sports collection features
Cats memorabilia. Additional short interviews feature the late Joe
DiMaggio, Vincent Devaney, and Leo Durocher.
This enchanting Christmas Chronicles classic combines solid
historical fact with glorious legend to deliver the definitive
story of Santa Claus. For anyone who has ever wondered...you're
right to believe in him!In "The Autobiography of Santa Claus",
Santa reveals his story for the first time. Nicholas (his real
name) was born in the Middle Eastern country of Lycia to wealthy
parents who died when he was young. The kind people of Lycia taught
him the lessons of goodness and generosity, which he began to
practice as a child by sharing his wealth with those in need. As a
young man, Nicholas realised that this generosity had bestowed upon
him special abilities to distribute his presents to deserving
children everywhere. And so it was that Santa broadened his
gift-giving and spread his message to many others who also valued
his belief in the goodness of giving. Families will delight in each
chapter of this Christmas classic - one per each cold December
night leading up to Christmas! And who is better to lead us through
seventeen centuries of Christmas magic than good ol' Saint Nick
himself?
From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s
America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in
print, on screen and in legend. The reality of their brief and
catastrophic lives is very different -- and far more fascinating.
Combining exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered
material, author Jeff Guinn tells the real story of two youngsters
from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly
traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more
important, fame. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who provided Guinn with access to
never-before-published family documents and photographs, this book
reveals the truth behind the myth, told with cinematic sweep and
unprecedented insight by a master storyteller.
Classic Christmas Recipes from Saint Nicholas Himself Special
delivery from the North Pole: Santa's favorite Christmas recipes
from around the world In this one-of-a-kind Christmas cookbook,
Saint Nicholas himself invites readers to pull up their chairs to
his dining table at the North Pole and enjoy more than seventy of
his most-cherished holiday recipes. Featuring classic American
holiday dishes as well as mouthwatering Christmas fare from all
over the world--Santa's favorite finds from his gift-giving
travels--Santa's North Pole Cookbook guides readers in creating
holiday meals that are as delicious as they are rich in Christmas
tradition. With classic Christmas recipes from Weihnachtsgans mit
Rotund Grunkohl und Kartoffelklossen (German Christmas Goose with
Green and Red Cabbage and Potato Dumplings) and Santa's Favorite
Rosemary Turkey to Christopsomo, the ancient Greek holiday bread
that families traditionally decorate with sketches of their
everyday lives, and traditional Christmas Plum Pudding, Santa's
North Pole Cookbook is a must-have for anyone who delights in
preparing delectable holiday food for the family. Throughout
history, winter solstice and later Christmas have been occasions
for special celebration. In this book, Santa also illuminates the
fascinating history and lore that surround these popular Christmas
dishes and shares with readers the wonderful stories of how and
where he personally encountered them in his Christmas travels.
Naked Came the Stranger set the format, but not always the tone or
subject matter, for a whole string of books that appeared in the
1970s. Called collaborative or serial novels, the multi-author
works were set in the suburbs, the Blue Ridge Mountains, Florida,
the American West, but never in Texas. Now, a dozen Texas authors
have gotten together to create a good old-fashioned western novel.
Each contributing author will write a chapter that builds on the
work that precedes his or her chapter. The plot features Noah, a
plantation slave who escapes and makes his way to the Union forces
and, finally, Texas, where he establishes a small ranch, runs a few
cattle, and, with wife Nelly, begins to raise a family. But Noah,
who has taken the name Freeman and named his ranch Free Land,
cannot leave his past behind. The slave catcher Quint Carpenter is
the local sheriff, and he's out for blood - specifically Noah's
blood - after Noah's sister kills Quint's younger son. And
carpetbagger Bear Coltrain, who once wanted to kidnap Noah and sell
him back into slavery, now wants Noah's land. And then, John Malone
comes along - Noah once saved the former cavalry officer's life,
and he wants to repay his debt. Can he help when someone kidnaps
Noah's baby girl? Can he help save the ranch - and, finally, save
Noah's life? At press time for this catalog, half the chapters
remain yet to be written, so the plot may change some - but that's
the magic of a project such as this one. In cooperation with TCU
Press, the ""Fort Worth Star-Telegram"" announced a contest in
which the winner became one of the contributing authors. Entries
were posted on the ""Star-Telegram"" web page, where the best three
entries were chosen by popular vote. The staff of TCU Press chose
the winner from among those entries. She is Mary Dittoe Kelly, and
this will be her first published writing. A celebration at Fort
Worth's Bass Hall will bring all the authors together onstage to
talk about the work, and the joys and problems of working in
collaboration. Former ""Star-Telegram"" book editor, Jeff Guinn
will moderate.
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Baja Oklahoma (Paperback)
Dan Jenkins; Afterword by Jeff Guinn
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Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, "Baja Oklahoma," features
protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically
commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still
convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish
Juanita serves drinks to the colorful crew patronizing Herb's Cafe
in South Fort Worth, worries herself sick over a hot-to-trot
daughter proving too fond of drugs and the dealers who sell them,
endures a hypochondriac mother whose whinings would justify murder,
dates a fellow middle-ager whose connections with the oil industry
are limited to dipstick duty at his filling station--and, by the
way, she also hopes to become a singer-songwriter in the real
country tradition of Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. That Juanita is
way too old to remain a kid with a crazy dream doesn't matter much
to her. In between handing out longneck beers to
customer-acquaintances battling hot flashes and deciding when
boyfriend Slick is finally going to get lucky, Juanita keeps
jotting down lyrics reflective of hard-won wisdom and setting them
to music composed on her beloved Martin guitar. Too many of her
early songwriting results are one-dimensional or derivative, but
finally she hits on something both original and heartfelt: a
tribute to her beloved home state, warts and all.
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