A portrait of the folk music of Texas is accompained by descriptions of the author's experiences collecting songs in Texas during the Depression

Tell Me a Story Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle

Biographies & Memoirs

Owens, William A.

Arts & Literature

Univ of Texas Pr

Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb—a naturalist, a folklorist, and a historian—all taught at the University of Texas, lived only a few blocks apart, and saw each other almost every day. The true cement of their friendship, however, was the correspondence that makes up much of this book. They wrote not to exchange information, but to communicate ideas, to nail down the generalities of conversation, and, above all, to challenge, encourage, and stimulate one another. William A. Owens, who knew all three personally, has tied their letters together with his own observations and with transcripts of tape interviews with the men. The result is a unique book, a combination of biography and personal history that portrays not only the three friends, but the land they loved as well.

Three Friends: Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb

Reference

University of Texas Press

Texas, the 1930s—the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Américo Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux, the black man they called "Grey Ghost," and all the other extraordinary "ordinary" people whom William A. Owens met in his travels. "Up and down and sideways" across Texas, Owens traveled. His goal: to learn for himself what the diverse peoples of the state "believed in, yearned for, laughed at, fought over, as revealed in story and song." Tell me a story, sing me a song brings together both the songs he gathered—many accompanied by music—and Owens' warm reminiscences of his travels in the Texas of the Thirties and early Forties.

Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle

Fever In The Earth

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Fever in the Earth

Science & Math

Kessinger Publishing

This Stubborn Soil

Historical

Vintage

Mylar protected dustjacket has slight fading on spine and is tattered/torn at edges. Price is blacked out with marker. Some staining to top edges of book and sticker abrasion to front free end paper.

A Season of Weathering

Environment

Scribner

From dust jacket notes: "This unique chronicle of the American past recounts the opening up of the frontier for two hundred years. William A. Owens follows the course of his own ancestors, the Cleaver family, as they moved through nine states, from Pennsylvania to Texas, always on the outer fringe of a new frontier. The long migration of the Cleavers provides the center for A Fair and Happy Land; but the book embraces the full story of that frontier experience. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas - Owens describes the opening of each frontier state as the pioneers kept pushing into the wilderness seeking elbow room and independence. It is a graphic and complicated record: of Indian wars, land deals, of conflicts over slavery and religious freedom. All that is here, and also a vivid, precise picture of the work-a-day life of families like the Cleavers and their friends the Boones, the people who made it happen...." Dedication: "This book is gratefully dedicated to those of my blood who have gone before, men and women, who, enjoined by the Old Testament to seek a New Canaan, sought it on the American frontier, who in the midst of both abundance and danger wittingly coupled, wittingly brought forth sons and daughters to people the face of a new earth, to make it indeed a land of milk and honey. Especially I keep in mind those forebears whose surnames I am able to record: Cleaver, Smith, Coleman, James, Chennault, Witherspoon, Hopson, Edmonds, Duval, and my own."

A Fair and Happy Land: A Chronicle of Frontier America

"Owens makes a compelling case that... the U.S. is not adequately preparing for the battles of the future."―Jay Winik, Wall Street Journal
Is the United States an exhausted superpower? Recent military operations in Iraq, Somalia, and Kosovo have resulted in defeat or stalemate. America's key weaponry is fast becoming obsolete, and its men and women in uniform are disenchanted. Yet the U.S. remains committed to a wide variety of conflicts around the world and is increasingly confronted by threats against which traditional military power will be ineffective.
As Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first Clinton administration, Admiral Bill Owens saw the challenges facing the U.S. military firsthand. In this trenchant, fascinating, and forward-looking book, Owens explains the full extent of the military crisis and proposes bold new solutions to revolutionize the armed services. Instead of spending trillions of dollars to update obsolete weapons systems, he argues, the Department of Defense should take advantage of recent advances in computing, communications, and satellite technology and bring our military into the Information Age. These changes―collectively known in defense circles as the Revolution in Military Affairs or RMA―would transform the way that America wages war, bringing about a smaller, stronger, and more flexible military better able to monitor enemy forces in real time and thereby counter the "fog of war" that has bedeviled commanders throughout history. Lifting the Fog of War offers both an insider's account of today's armed forces and a vital blueprint for a more effective and affordable military tomorrow. For the paperback edition, the author has written a new preface about the Bush administration's attitudes toward military reform.

Lifting the Fog of War

History

Military

Johns Hopkins University Press

This work summarizes an ongoing longitudinal study concerned with the nature of human differences as manifest in peoples' life histories. The traditional models for the description of human differences are reviewed, then contrasted with the presentation of alternative models. This volume is also one of the few to investigate different approaches to measurement procedures. Practical applications of these models and the results obtained in a 23 research effort are discussed.

Patterns of Life History: The Ecology of Human Individuality (Applied Psychology Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mumford, Michael D.

Stokes, Garnett S.

Stokes, Garnett

Mental Health

Routledge

Black Mutiny

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pilgrim Pr

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