Talk about obnoxious...

[Occhidiangela]

Two things.

First, you seem to be reading a great deal into what I'm saying. I'm quite sure it isn't all there.

Second, Mr. Fehrenbach's book doesn't seem to have gotten particularly great scholarly reviews, with one councelling quite specifically that this shouldn't be anyone's first book on Texas. (Also, he apparently wrote a rather sloppy book on Mexico, which doesn't exactly endear him to me.) I'll read it if you really recommend it despite all this (I may read it anyway) but do you perhaps have another source that might serve as well?

-Jester
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Really? Reviews written by whom, with what agenda? It is worth pointing out that his book was written in 1969 or so, which puts a couple of decades of political evolution to be treated by others.

If you want to understand Texas, which perhaps you don't, you'd hardly do better than reading Ferenbach as a point of departure. No one is "an end all, be all, all things to all people in one book." Like a lot of places, Texas is a multifaceted enigma, even to people who live here.

Occhi