#bryan burrough

[decaturpubliclibrary]

Our newest episode of Dewey Like Murder? is available for streaming and download! We talk about The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough & Seduced by Madness by Carol Pogash! Check it out! (Decatur Public Library TX)

[kamreadsandrecs]

Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter's Memoir and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era

Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Br

[kammartinez]

Bryan Burrough on Graydon Carter's Memoir and Vanity Fair’s Golden Era

Lavish budgets, high-society gossip, and headline-making journalism— Vanity Fair under Graydon Carter was the last great magazine empire. Br

[leonardcohenofficial]

still listening to days of rage which remains a really fascinating listen but the way burrough talks about bernadine dohrn drives me up the wall like sorry that you don’t like many of her tactics do we need to comment on her sexual habits or her body (while mentioning almost nothing for the men besides a short section describing weather and their whole smash monogamy thing) almost every time she comes up; ​yes bernadine was a complicated leader and i have many critiques of her but none of them have to do with her being hot and having a lot of sex LMAO

[lesserjoke]

Book #231 of 2021:

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford

An interesting look at the historical record surrounding the Alamo battle site in the Texan war for independence from Mexico. The first half of the book contextualizes what’s known and unknown about the skirmish, a subject which is uncontroversial among expert historians but radically different from the story that’s been passed down through popular culture as a brave stand for freedom against an oppressive regime, with the two sides read along homogeneous racial lines. (In reality, the rebels included both Anglo and Tejano participants, and they were largely fighting for their right to continue owning slaves in the face of the Mexican government’s efforts to stamp out the practice. There’s also little evidence of the Davy Crockett heroics commonly associated with the conflict.) In the remainder of the text, the authors trace how the legend developed, and how it continues to be passionately defended as an apocryphal piece of white cultural heritage today.

This is a pop-history title that mostly reports and summarizes rather than bringing any new analysis to bear, and its claims have been making headlines solely due to the modern conservative effort to crush any work under the imagined umbrella of ‘critical race theory’ that dares to teach unflattering facts about our nation’s past. It’s still worth the read, but is far less bold or original — let alone misleading or dangerous — than its opponents would have you believe.

[Content warning for racism and rape.]

★★★☆☆

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[bigtickhk]

Review | What people today — including Phil Collins — get wrong about the Alamo

Forget the myths and legends about this Texas landmark.

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford

https://amzn.to/3cDsfke

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781984880093

[bigtickhk]

Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas

“Forget the Alamo,” by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and “A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles,” by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford 

https://amzn.to/3cDsfke

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781984880093

A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles: A History of Politics and Race in Texas by Bill Minutaglio 

https://amzn.to/3izP5gj 

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781477310366

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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford.