A primer on Texas from a not terrible Texan
Good to learn more about Texas especially these days, and this book besides providing a wistful retrospective on the author's Texan roots and imparting much of the flavor of the state, explains how Texas got to be Texas of today (somewhat concurrent and largely responsible for how the Republican Party got to be the Republican Party of today), and the Texas within Texas that is Austin. It's a bit nostalgic for me, too, as I lived in Dallas for just a year, but it was my first year out of college and I was introduced to BBQ, blistering heat, Tex-Mex, Tex-Mex racism, and coworkers with guns in their cars. But I had a shot at a job in Austin, so what might have been...