Our City--Dallas
Author | : Justin Ford Kimball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Dallas (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Justin Ford Kimball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Dallas (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harvey J. Graff |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816652694 |
This work that proposes a novel interpretation of a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past looks at elements that have shaped Dallas and served to limit democratic participation and exacerbate inequality.
Author | : Bill Minutaglio |
Publisher | : Twelve |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1455522112 |
In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city. Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas-until now. With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction Named one of the Top 3 JFK Books by Parade Magazine. Named 1 of The 5 Essential Kennedy assassination books ever written by The Daily Beast. Named one of the Top Nonfiction Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews.
Author | : Mary Corbin Sies |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 1226 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801851643 |
Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
Author | : A. C. Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Austin, 1973. vi, 186p., ill., dj. Oblong 11x8-1/2. First half of book is an informal verbal history of the city; second half consists of 182 black and white photographs of the Dallas of the past.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Cartels |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tim Cloward |
Publisher | : Deep Vellum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1646052382 |
A creative cultural history of Dallas through the lens of its defining twentieth century event: JFK's assassination. The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, shocked America. Instantly, Dallas was blamed for the killing, labeled “the City of Hate.” In the half century since the president’s murder, this city’s artists and writers have produced important, if often overlooked, work that speaks to the difficult burden of our civic shaming. Here are the works of poetry, theater, journalism, art, the actions of our citizens and political leaders, all the fragments of our cultural life that address this tortured local history. The City That Killed the President is a fitful discourse offering a window into Dallas itself, a city reluctant to grapple with its past.
Author | : Zane L. Miller |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780814208816 |
Through an examination of such topics as city charters, city planning texts, neighborhood organizations, municipal recreation programs, urban government reforms, urban identity, and fair housing campaigns, the authors offer insight into the process through which ideas about the nature of the city have affected action in the urban environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Light Townsend Cummins |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-09-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1623493293 |
Winner, 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for the Research in the History of Women, presented at the Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting At Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. Tejas Warrior has welcomed thousands of visitors since the Texas Centennial Exposition opened in the 1930s. The iconic piece is instantly recognizable, yet few people know about its creator: Allie Victoria Tennant, one of a notable group of Texas artists who actively advanced regionalist art in the decades before World War II. Light Townsend Cummins follows Tennant’s public career from the 1920s to the 1960s, both as an artist and as a culture-bearer, as she advanced cultural endeavors, including the arts. A true pathfinder, she helped to create and nurture art institutions that still exist today, most especially the Dallas Museum of Art, on whose board of trustees she sat for almost thirty years. Tennant also worked on behalf of other civic institutions, including the public schools, art academies, and the State Fair of Texas, where she helped create the Women’s Building. Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas sheds new light on an often overlooked artist.
Author | : Richard H. Steckel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2002-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521801676 |
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