Dallas
Author: Barbara A. Curran
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781581824728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew shows become a blockbuster success or define their era as Dallas did.
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The Accomodation
Author: Jim Schutze
Publisher: Citadel Pr
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780806510460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses racial relations in Dallas during the 1950s and 1960s and describes the struggles of the black community to gain power
Dallas 1963
Author: Bill Minutaglio
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1455522112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
North Dallas Forty
Author: Peter Gent
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1453220712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational Bestseller: The “powerful novel” about the hidden side of pro football, written by a former NFL player (Newsweek). On the field, the men who play football are gladiators, titans, and every other kind of cliché. But when they leave the locker room they are only men. Peter Gent’s classic novel looks at the seedy underbelly of the pro game, chronicling eight days in the life of Phil Elliott, an aging receiver for the Texas team. Running on a mixture of painkillers and cortisone as he tries to keep his fading legs strong, Elliott tries to get every ounce of pleasure out of his last days of glory, living the life of sex, drugs, and football. Adapted for the screen in 1979, this novel, written by ex-Dallas Cowboy Peter Gent, is widely considered the best football novel of all time.
Dallas: the Deciding Years
Author: A. C. Greene
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustin, 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.
Lost Dallas
Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738585084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough founded in 1841, Dallas did not experience significant growth until 1873 when the Texas and Pacific (T&P) Railroad crossed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad (H&TC) near downtown. Securing these railroads led to a prolific building boom that has never fully ended, even during the Great Depression and subsequent world wars. Dallas's ability to sustain growth and development as a banking and commercial center led to the demolition of much of the early built environment, a trend that continues even today. Lost Dallas explores and documents those buildings, neighborhoods, and places that have been lost and even forgotten since the city's modest antebellum beginning.
The Last Midwife
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1466886145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Sandra Dallas's incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and characters that capture your heart, The Last Midwife tells the story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them. It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most couldn't imagine getting through pregnancy and labor without her by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead...and the evidence points to Gracy as the murderer. She didn't commit the crime, but clearing her name isn't so easy when her innocence is not quite as simple, either. She knows things, and that's dangerous. Invited into her neighbors' homes during their most intimate and vulnerable times, she can't help what she sees and hears. A woman sometimes says things in the birthing bed, when life and death seem suspended within the same moment. Gracy has always tucked those revelations away, even the confessions that have cast shadows on her heart. With her friends taking sides and a trial looming, Gracy must decide whether it's worth risking everything to prove her innocence. And she knows that her years of discretion may simply demand too high a price now...especially since she's been keeping more than a few dark secrets of her own.
Living Dead in Dallas
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0441019315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done.
Dallas Then and Now®
Author: Ken Fitzgerald
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1909108405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPutting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Dallas Then and Now®? provides a visual chronicle of the city's pastJohn Neely Bryan built the first cabin on the side of the Trinity River in 1841, and by 1845, when Texas was admitted to the Union, Dallas County and the town of Dallas were established, taking their name from President James K. Polk's vice-president George Mifflin Dallas. This collection uses vintage photographs chosen from nearly a million cataloged in the Dallas Public Library from the early days of photography up until the 1960s. Sites include Oak Cliff Viaduct, Founder's Cabin, the Old Red Courthouse, Dealey Plaza, Trinity River, Union Station, Lamar Street, Elm Street, Magnolia Petroleum building, Dallas Scottish Rite, the Adolphus Hotel, Love Field, Dallas Hall, and the State Fairgrounds.
An Awesome Book of Thanks!
Author: Dallas Clayton
Publisher: Two Lions
Published: 2010-11-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935597377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouble Tap to Zoom. Inspired by the idea of being thankful for all that you have, An Awesome Book of Thanks is a beautifully written, fantastically illustrated walk through a world of magical unicorns, robotic dinosaurs, and all of life's simple moments, great and small. Crafted for children ages 0-1000, this timeless story is sure to be an instant classic, at home in the hands of anyone looking for the perfect reminder of just how beautiful life can be.
