Owen Wister, Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East
Frank Reed is a contemporary Prufrock, a man who has lost his moral and emotional centers under the weight of the social and moral disintegration pervasive in society. Dispatched from...
On Theology
Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John Kennedy...
In this volume Peter Brook is in dialogue with college students and faculty. Theatre professor Dale Moffitt has edited and arranged by subject twelve hours of spontaneous question and answer...
Nancy Beck Young's is the first book-length assessment of Texas Congressman Wright Patman's public life. Based on exhaustive research, this crisp congressional biography analyzes one of the twentieth century's most...
Featuring sixteen original essays by nationally prominent rhetoricians, critical theorists, and composition specialists, this wide-ranging and often controversial collection brings together the most exhaustive discussion of ethos to date.More than...
This volume celebrates the can-do, risk-taking, creative pioneers of Texas Instruments from its inception in the 1930s as a tiny geophysical exploration company working out of the back of a...
Liza Wieland's mesmerizing new novel poses the questions: what if such a criminal, whose personal losses and obsessions have terrorized America, had a daughter--a beautiful blonde dancer in Las Vegas?...
An English professor in a small Texas town, William A. Owens in 1944 did what many younger men had done before him: he enlisted to serve his country in its...
This volume is the first published edition of Albert R. Kitzhaber's 1953 dissertation, a work that has become something of an underground classic through wide circulation of microfilm and multigeneration...
This book includes correspondence with Alfred Knopf, Sr., Carl Hertzog, renowned book designer, and J. Frank Dobie covering the period between 1957-1960.
This history of the Hollywood film industry draws primarily on taped and transcribed interviews with director, actors, and others--from the Southern Methodist University Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts,...
Richard Haddaway's novel is a warm-hearted, realistic, multi-generational story of the Beckwith clan, a Texas oil family dominated by its wealthy patriarch who does his best to mold his children...
Planters & Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas
In these often intense and searing personal essays, a lawyer describes her see-sawing emotions over a misdiagnosis of what she was told was an inoperable tumor - and her anger...
Run Toward the Nightland: Magic of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Gathers together the essays of criticism and comment on McMurtry's fiction, non-fiction, and films, in addition to giving an extensive bibliography.
Folk Art in Texas
This is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore collected and written by ten folklorists in 1925. Included are articles on Mexican popular ballad; Spanish songs of New Mexico; versos...