To most Americans, Texas has been that love-it-or-hate it slice of the country that has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented turmoil from the Amer

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War emythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the gen

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the

Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2004.

Started as a scrapbook of memorabilia from a father's one-room school, Lone Star School blossomed into the telling of a how a mighty nation was built from sea t