Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth
by Burrough, Bryan, 1961- (Author), Tomlinson, Chris (Author), Stanford, Jason (Author)
Summary
"Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it... Full description
- 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