Lone Star, T. R. Fehrenbach
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Lone Star
A History Of Texas And The Texans

Author: T. R. Fehrenbach

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 39 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2018


Synopsis

Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds."

Author Bio

During World War II, the late T. R. Fehrenbach served with the U.S. Infantry and Engineers as platoon sergeant with an engineer battalion. He continued his military career in the Korean War, rising from platoon leader to company commander and then to battalion staff officer of the 72nd Tank battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. His works include U.S. Marines in Action, The Battle of Anzio, and This Kind of War.

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