{"product_id":"tell-tale-texas-investigations-in-infamous-history-paperback","title":"Tell-Tale Texas: Investigations in Infamous History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. R. Bills\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past. Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The \"Searchers\" never did that much searching, the \"Giants\" were hardly ever big in terms of character and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star State was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and for too many Texans, nothing was ever \"Awright, Awright, Awright.\" A Black civil rights champion was assassinated in 1976, and the incident was buried. A \"Cowtown Catcher in the Rye\" was published in 1940, and the country club set made it disappear. And the war machines of Hitler and Mussolini were perfected with Texas oil during the Spanish Civil War. Author E.R. Bills challenges his proud neighbors, earnestly asking them to take a hard look at their past and examine their own historical amnesia, cultural fragility and fierce denial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE.R. Bills is an award-winning author and freelance journalist. His nonfiction works include \u003cem\u003eTexas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious\u003c\/em\u003e (2013); \u003cem\u003eThe 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas\u003c\/em\u003e (2014); \u003cem\u003eBlack Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); \u003cem\u003eTexas Far and Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg's Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (The History Press 2017); \u003cem\u003eThe San Marcos 10: An Anti-War Protest in Texas\u003c\/em\u003e (2019); \u003cem\u003eTexas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups\u003c\/em\u003e (2021); \u003cem\u003eFear and Loathing in the Lone Star State\u003c\/em\u003e (2021); and \u003cem\u003e100 Things to Do in Texas Before You Die\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52945222303968,"sku":"9781467154345","price":26.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/V8G1hMZGWw9781467154345_90f0ba8f-b8ee-4afe-b3b1-bceca4363810.webp?v=1781402605","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/tell-tale-texas-investigations-in-infamous-history-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}