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Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth  Cover Image Book Book

Forget the Alamo : the rise and fall of an American myth / Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford.

Burrough, Bryan, 1961- (author.). Tomlinson, Chris, (author.). Stanford, Jason, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781984880093
  • ISBN: 1984880098
  • Physical Description: xxvii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-371) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Bloody Texas -- The Americans, their cotton, and who picked it -- The American middle finger, extended -- "The President Santana is friendly to Texas . . ." -- The war dogs -- San Antonio -- The worst kind of victory -- Countdown -- The final days -- The battle of the Alamo -- A first draft of history -- Remember the Alamo? -- The second battle of the Alamo -- The White man's Alamo -- The Alamo goes global -- The Alamo supremacists -- The rise of Alamo revisionism -- Revisionism unleashed -- The Alamo under siege -- The sisters of spite -- "This politically incorrect nonsense" -- The Alamo reimagined -- The problem with Phil -- Epilogue: Another battle of the Alamo -- Afterword: We are what we remember
Subject: Slavery > Texas > History > 19th century.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) > History.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) > Folklore.
Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) > Siege, 1836.
Folklore.
Slavery.
Texas.
Texas > San Antonio.
Texas > San Antonio > Alamo.
Genre: History.

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