Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach
Narrated by John McLain
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T.R. Fehrenbach
During World War II, the late Fehrenbach served with the US 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. Prior to his military involvement, a young T. R. Fehrenbach, born in San Benito, Texas, worked as a farmer and the owner of an insurance company. His most enduring work is Lone Star, a one-volume history of Texas. In retirement, he wrote a political column for a San Antonio newspaper. He sold numerous pieces to publications such as the Saturday Evening Post and Argosy. He is author of several books, including U.S. Marines in Action, The Battle of Anzio, and This Kind of War.
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Reviews for Lone Star
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extremely interesting read for the Texan, and anyone interested in the Lone Star state.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Reading this book is like listening to your favorite football team or baseball team's radio broadcast. If you are not bothered by the "homer" perspective of the broadcaster it is great. A little more objective perspective may be nice if you are not a fan of that team.
TR Fehrenbach is a Texas homer. So if you have lived your whole life in Texas and love the state like it if heaven on earth you will love this book. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lone Star is seven hundred sixty-seven pages of fascinating stories about Texas. It’s all here---the original peoples, the Spanish explorers, the Mexican settlers, the American settlers, the wars, and Texas as part of Mexico, Texas as an independent nation, and Texas as part of the United States. As I read along, I kept thinking how much reading these stories explains a lot about the way Texas is now---the conflicts on the border today mirroring conflicts on the border many years ago, the desire of Texans to be independent of a central government, the way the rainfall on the land has shaped the agriculture and ranching of the state. A compelling read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Clearly the best book on the subject of the development of Texas up to the period of the early twentieth century, written in a very entertaining way by a true master of the art. Simply a great read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5By far the best general history of Texas available to date: readable and accurate. This is a sterling classic!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had to keep reminding myself Fehrenbach was not actually in Texas 40,000 years ago because his book, Lone Staris so detailed, so expansive that it felt like he should have been. In 719 pages Fehrenbach details every aspect of Texas one could imagine. From practically primordial beginnings to present day the birth, growth and development of Texas is detailed. Everything from agriculture, architecture and attitude to wars (civil and great) is meticulously described. Other reviews have used the words expansive, panoramic, extensive, vast, comprehensive, detailed...and I would have to agree. Not a stone in Texas is left unturned when it comes to recounting the political, the people, the powers, the progression of the state. What sets this book apart from other histories of Texas is the fact that Fehrenbach is from Texas. One can hear the passion for his home state woven into every knowledgeable sentence.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This books was originally published in 1968. I have the first edition. It offers an interesting portrayal of what race relations were like in Texas in the decades leading up to the 1960s. For example, a chapter title is "Red Ni**ers, Red Vermin" regarding the Indian Wars. Mexican Americans and African Americans do not fare much better in this history of Texas; however, it does give an accurate portrayal of Euro-American attitudes towards people of color in these decades of Jim Crow legislation in Texas. As a native Texan of Mexican American heritage, I can say it's definitely a worthwhile read.