Picturing Texas Politics : A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry / Chuck Bailey, Patrick L. Cox, and John Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Chuck, author.

Cox, Patrick L., 1952- author.

Anderson, John, author.

Series:

Focus on American history series.

Focus on American History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--Politics and government--Pictorial works.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2015]

Summary:

With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state's founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, here is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns. The Republic of Texas was founded in 1839, around the time that photography was being invented. So while there were no photographers at the Alamo or San Jacinto, they arrived soon after to immortalize, on film, Sam Houston, David Burnett, Mirabeau Lamar, and many other founding fathers of the Lone Star State. Over the following nearly two centuries, Texas politics and politicians have provided reliable, often dramatic, and sometimes larger-than-life subjects for photographers to capture in the moment and add to the historical record. Picturing Texas Politics presents the first photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns ever assembled. Chuck Bailey has searched archives, museums, libraries, and private collections to find photographs that have never been published, as well as iconic images, such as Russell Lee's pictures of one of Ralph Yarborough's campaigns. These photographs are arranged into four chronological sections, each one introduced by historian Patrick Cox, who also provides informative photo captions. The photographs display power and political savvy from the early Republic to Lyndon Johnson and Bob Bullock; unmatched dedication to Texas in the Hobby and Bush families; and the growing influence of women in politics, from Miriam "Ma" Ferguson to Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and Kay Bailey Hutchison. With Sam Houston's jaguar vest, W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's hillbilly band, a famous governor with an ostrich, and prominent Texans eating watermelons, shooting guns, and riding horses, this is Texas politics at its liveliest and best.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Photography and Politics | John Anderson

Chapter 1. Republic of Texas to Civil War and Reconstruction

Chapter 2. Reform and Growth from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century

Chapter 3. Texas in the Great Depression and World War II

Chapter 4. Modern Texas

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Photographic Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477329252

1477329250

OCLC:

1389613006