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George Guidall
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Stephen Harrigan
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The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.
"I couldn't believe Texas was real", the painter Georgia O'Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, "the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are."
Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas's evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists - all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea.
Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
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Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque."
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- De Greg Wilkinson en 04-24-19
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God Save Texas
- A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation has produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become.
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The best book about Texas
- De Jake Salinas en 06-07-18
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Swiss Family Robinson
- De: Johann Wyss
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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After the Robinsons - a minister, his wife, and their 4 young sons - are shipwrecked on a desert island, they must adapt to their new environment, which includes exotic birds and animals, but none of the comforts they enjoyed in their native Switzerland. Without modern conveniences or even clocks and calendars, the Robinsons must use common sense to build a home, find food, and tame the island's wild animals.
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Awesome version!!!!!!!
- De Tabatha en 01-26-05
De: Johann Wyss
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Supreme City
- How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Frangione Jim
- Duración: 29 h y 39 m
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In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age. Radio, tabloid newspapers, and movies with sound appeared. The silver screen took over Times Square as Broadway became America's movie mecca. Tremendous new skyscrapers were built in Midtown in one of the greatest building booms in history.
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the background to the NYC we now live in
- De MARCIE D. TERMAN en 03-05-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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The Morgans
- Morgan Family, Book 1
- De: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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There's nothing particularly unusual for a legendary gunman to be summoned to the lawless, bullet-riddled territory of Arizona. But when Frank Morgan, aka the Last Gunfighter, rides into Tucson, he finds himself ambushed and kidnapped by ruthless Mexican bandit Ramirez's army of thugs. The only way out is for Frank's son, Conrad Browning, heir to the vast Browning fortune, to ransom his father free. But Conrad isn't giving up one cent. He's got a far deadlier currency in mind.
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Lots of action
- De Luvmeags en 12-01-23
De: J.A. Johnstone, y otros
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Three Roads to the Alamo
- The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 27 h y 34 m
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Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history - and about what really happened in that battle.
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Grandfather Dr. Death eats Applesauce on Christmas
- De McKinley L. Donnor en 07-15-20
De: William C. Davis
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On a Pale Horse
- Incarnations of Immortality, Book One
- De: Piers Anthony
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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In this, the first novel of the best-selling Incarnations of Immortality series, Piers Anthony combines a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death with a gripping story of romance and loyalty, all set in a world of magic and technical wizardry.
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Full Series Review: 5 Stars
- De Jake en 04-06-08
De: Piers Anthony
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Big Wonderful Thing
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- Craig C.
- 03-03-23
Should be the textbook that 7th graders should read
If this were the textbook for Texas History, students would be better informed about Texas. The Texas Legislature would probably ban it because it doesn’t perpetuate the heroic Anglo myths. Maybe, some chapters could be excerpted for additional reading assignments on particular topics. It tells a story of Texas with many of its warts included. Entertaining and nicely read.
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- TylerWSlawson
- 02-07-23
Amazing!
Thorough, intriguing, and engaging! This is a great work of writing. I appreciated the vastness of the writing like the vastness of its subject. The narrator gave a stellar performance, causing me to laugh and to cry. At 29 hours, it is a journey, but one worth taking (especially if you live here!).
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-12-23
The facts without the sugarcoating
I was interested in a version of Texas history that I didn't learn in school, and that's what I got. Well worth the listen, as only George Guidall can tell it (except for the mispronunciation of Kleberg). Fascinating insights into people previously known only as heroes.
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- Jim Walsh
- 01-16-22
Texas history through storytelling
Loved this big book. The size of it intimidated me but once I started I found it an easy and enjoyable read. It’s all stories rather than dry history. Stories and profiles of a vast array of colorful characters. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, just pick a chapter. I’ve lived in Texas for 55 years and have an irrational love for the place. I sense the same in Harrigan.
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- TJ
- 03-31-23
Simply outstanding.
Seriously, good. Really wonderfully read. Awfully picturesque in the descriptions and the relating of the stories.
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- John M
- 02-24-25
Simply magnificent.
A treasure for all Texans and all those who’ve heard of this big, beautiful thing.
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- Samuel Stephen Ross
- 10-01-20
Just wonderful! I didn't want it to end.
I had no idea what I was in for, but the confluence of Harrigan's writing and Guidall's voice is immediately mesmerizing. Mr. Harrigan made me love heroes and villains and even inanimate trees, escarpments, and old bones. He has a genius for pulling the right word like an arrow out of his vast lexicon quiver to impact everything; perfectly do-se-doing between colloquial terms, fifty cent words, and even words hitherto never written like "Fergusonian". The most magical thing Mr. Harrigan has done with this book about Texas however is he has somehow managed to make me feel as if both he and the I are discovering all of it at the same time. in other words, not only are Sam Houston, Cynthia Ann Parker, and Ann Richards "characters" in this book, our dear author is indeed a character himself; as awe-struck as Huck Finn as he navigates this river of time past characters/events. It's a long journey, but I encourage you to come along with Mr. Harrigan. I remember asking a host at a busy restaurant if it was worth the wait. She said "We ain't busy for nothin', darlin'". Well reader, this book ain't long for nothin' either. Enjoy!
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- D. Rice
- 05-14-20
Like oceans and the highest mountains...
This 28-hour compelling history of Texas is so well formulated, so craftily organized, so beautifully written, and so expertly performed that finishing it is like parting with an old friend. Since I was transplanted in Texas from Ohio as an adult, I never knew the depth and breadth of this state’s story. Now, hearing such a big, wonderful recounting as a senior citizen, I am bowled over. Having George Guidall read to me is icing on the cake.
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- mayadog
- 01-01-25
The best history story of Texas.
From beginning to end, Stephen Harrigan weaves a spellbinding story about the history of Texas. Being a Texan myself, I found this book engrossing to the 9th degree. More interesting than the history books I read in school more than 50 years ago, I hope Texas schools will replace those dreary history books with this one.
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- Elizabeth
- 12-22-19
Guidall is in top form with very good material
The book is full of interesting information and it is written well and is engaging listening. Guildall could read a telephone book and make that interesting..so given this good a book to read it is all very pleasant. You just sort of have to let some of the Austin liberal loony jibes pass you by and it is time well spent
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