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In Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W.

Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the

genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American

history.

From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic

Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis

and glory, to President Andrew Jackson, whose expansionist

aspirations loomed large in the background, here is the story of

Texas and the outsize figures who shaped its turbulent history.

Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking in

the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad,

its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, and

its day of liberation as an upstart republic, Brands’ lively

history draws on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters to

animate a diverse cast of characters whose adventures, exploits,

and ambitions live on in the very fabric of our nation.

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H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor

of American history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the

author of many books, among them The First American: The Life

and Times of Benjamin Franklin, which was a finalist for

the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award;

T.R.: The Last Romantic, a critically acclaimed

biography of Theodore Roosevelt; and The Age of Gold,

a celebrated history of the California Gold Rush. He lives in

Austin, Texas.

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“A balanced, unromanticized account [of] America’s great epic.”

–The New York Times Book Review

“Sweeping and specific. . . . [Brands] writes the story with

clarity and vigor. . . . Clearly adds to our knowledge of an era

when men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensible

concept.” –The Washington Post Book World

“[Brands] offers both sides of the Texas story, striking

perspectives from both the revolutionists and the Mexicans who

opposed them. . . . Lone Star Nation combines depth,

de*ion and detail in a magnificent, fascinating book.” –The

Miami Herald

“Extraordinary. . . . A rich story that thrives above all else on

the novelistic depth of character he gives to his subjects.”

–Austin American-Statesman

“Rousing. . . . [Brands] is a master of the ground-view,

narrative history.” –Dallas Morning News

“Brands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popular

historian of his generation. . . . There is no denying [his] talent

for clear, cogent and uncluttered prose.” –Chicago

Tribune

“Lively and readable . . . contains vivid portraits.” –Harper’s

Magazine

“The most compelling analysis of the results of the war as well as

the best articulated defense for the motives of [Stephen] Austin,

Sam Houston and the other Texas patriots.” –The Atlanta

Journal-Constitution

“Notably clear eyed. . . . [Brands] is conversant with the

intricacies of his subject [as] he describes the contentiousness,

independence and sense of entitlement that eventually turned Texas,

however briefly, into a free and self-contained nation.” –The

New York Times

“Vibrant, energetic, and masterful. . . . Immensely readable.”

–The Washington Times

“Extremely vivid and beautifully written. . . . Brands [is] a

master of de*ion.” –The News & Observer (Raleigh,

NC)

“Gripping. . . . A book that is sweeping and specific in allowing a

reader to be deliciously immersed in the magnificent story. . . .

Even well-versed readers will find new perspective here.” –Fort

Worth Star-Telegram