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Burrough, Bryan, 1961- author.

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

New York : Penguin Press, 2021.

xxvii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

"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... In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark."-- Compiled from publisher's description.

Slavery -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.

Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- History.

Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Folklore.

Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) -- Siege, 1836

Tomlinson, Chris, author.

Stanford, Jason, author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index.

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.

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