Trillin on Texas /

Trillin on Texas / / Calvin Trillin.

"Yes, I do have a Texas connection, but, as we say in the Midwest, where I grew up, not so's you'd know it." So Calvin Trillin introduces this collection of articles and poems about a place that turns up surprisingly often when he's ostensibly writing about something else. W...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Trillin, Calvin,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Bridwell Texas History Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (196 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • By Meat Alone
  • The Dynasticks
  • Mystery Money
  • Bad Language
  • Scouting Sleepers
  • Confessions of a Speechwriter/ And Especially to Pickens, S.C.
  • Knowing Johnny Jenkins
  • If the Boot Fits ...
  • New Cheerleaders
  • Whose Mines Are They?
  • Not Super-Outrageous
  • Three Texans in Six Lines
  • Making Adjustments
  • Presidential Ups and Downs: Washington Pundits Take Their Analytical Skills to the Ranch
  • The Life and Times of Joe Bob Briggs, So Far
  • One Texan in Eight Lines
  • Reformer
  • Molly Ivins, R.I.P.
  • Credits

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