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Forget The Alamo The Rise And Fall Of An American Myth Burrough

Name: Forget The Alamo The Rise And Fall Of An American Myth Burrough
SKU: BELL-231029854
Price: 31.00 USD
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Publisher: Penguin Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 27.2 MB

Author: Burrough, Bryan & Tomlinson, Chris & Stanford, Jason

ISBN: 9781984880093, 1984880098

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Forget The Alamo The Rise And Fall Of An American Myth Burrough by Burrough, Bryan & Tomlinson, Chris & Stanford, Jason 9781984880093, 1984880098 instant download after payment.

Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head.
Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos, Texans of Mexican origin who fought alongside the Anglo rebels, scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict...