Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and by Gary Cartwright,Robert Draper

By Gary Cartwright,Robert Draper

Whether the topic is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his personal leukemia-stricken son Mark, by way of taking a look at the area via one other person's eyes, not anyone does it larger than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have depended on Cartwright to inform the tales at the back of the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has advised us not only what is occurred over 3 many years in Texas, yet, extra importantly, what we have turn into as a result.

This e-book collects seventeen of Cartwright's most sensible Texas Monthly articles from the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, besides a brand new essay, "My so much Unforgettable Year," in regards to the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He levels broadly in those items, from the explanations for his go back to Texas after a brand new Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. alongside the best way, he strolls via San Antonio's old King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman struggle; visits front traces of Texas' new variety wars; will get contained in the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgical procedure, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's phrases, those items all list "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home."

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