Lone Star

T.R. Fehrenbach’s history of Texas, called Lone Star, has been a great help in catching up on the complex history of my new state. Texas has some incredible stories and characters. Beyond the fascinating Texas history, I’d also recommend reading the book for the parallels to modern politics and current events, like this sentence about the buildup to the Civil War:

The extreme stand against change – wrapped, as always in America, in a Constitutional cloak – was clearly the mark of a badly insecure and intellectually tortured society.

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