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Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth
Audience Adults
Published 2021 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company, Waterville, ME
ISBN 9781432892852
Bib Id 2478669
Copyright 2021
Edition Large print edition.
Description 625 pages (large print) : maps ; 22 cm
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ISBN
9781432892852 (hardcover, alkaline paper) $34.00
1432892851
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LG-PRINT 976.403 B
Title
Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
2021 by Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company, Waterville, ME :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
625 pages (large print) : maps ; 22 cm
Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Bloody Texas -- The Americans, their cotton, and who picked it -- The American middle finger, extended -- "The President Santana is friendly to Texas..." -- The war dogs -- San Antonio -- The worst kind of victory -- Countdown -- The final days -- The battle of the Alamo -- A first draft of history -- Remember the Alamo? -- The second battle of the Alamo -- The White man's Alamo -- The Alamo goes global -- The Alamo supremacists -- The rise of Alamo revisionism -- Revisionism unleashed -- The Alamo under siege -- The sisters of spite -- "This politically incorrect nonsense" -- The Alamo reimagined -- The problem with Phil -- Epilogue: Another battle of the Alamo -- Afterword: We are what we remember.
Summary
"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 ... owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten or 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 arising from Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo ... explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows us how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Cover.
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