The Seventh Flag
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The Seventh Flag
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Author : Dede Weldon Casad
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2009-11
The Seventh Flag written by Dede Weldon Casad and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with categories.
Before 1986, Texas enjoyed a world-class image. Due to the oil crisis, the Savings and Loan debacle, bank failures, and the real estate market crash, Texas is on the verge of economic collapse. With tragedy striking all around, Sidney Gordon's life is about to change along with the future of her home state. After the death of her husband, Sidney is encouraged by Oliver Eberly, a Texas businessman and former United States congressman, to accept the job of press secretary for the governor of Texas. For the first time, she finds herself compromised by her personal responsibilities as a mother and her own undefined ambitions as a woman. Thrown into a world both foreign to her experience and nature, Sidney must rise to the challenge and tap into her inner reserves with the determination and tenacity of a pumping East Texas oil well. Often stretched beyond her limits with one high-pressure conflict after another, Sidney discovers that the destiny of the state lies in her hands. With the backing of her blue-ribbon committee of scholars and experts, she forms the Austin Agenda and heads to Washington with a solution so controversial it stalks the thin line of treason.
Seventh Flag
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Author : Sid Balman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Seventh Flag written by Sid Balman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Fiction categories.
The US and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, tearing away the decency, optimism, and security that shaped those robust democracies for more than eight decades. No place is immune, including the small West Texas town of Dell City, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert. These families’ partnership is as unlikely as the idea of a United States, and their powerful friendship can be traced back to a bloody knife fight in a Juarez cantina just after World War II. The bond forged that night between Jack Laws, an Irish American who staked his claim in West Texas after the war, and Ali Zarkan, whose great-grandfather sailed from the Middle East to Texas in the mid-1800s as part of President Franklin Pierce’s attempt to create the US Army Camel Corps, shapes each generation of the families as they come of age and adapt to shifting paradigms of gender, commerce, patriotism, loyalty, religion, and sexuality. From the beaches of the Western Pacific to the battlefields of the Middle East and from the lawless streets of Juarez to the darkest corners of the Internet, the two families fight real and perceived enemies—journeying, as they do, through the football fields of Texas and West Point, the hippie playgrounds of Asia, the music halls of Austin, the terrorist cells of Europe and the political backrooms where fortunes are gained or lost over the rights to Western water. Underlying their experiences is the basic question of what constitutes identity and citizenship in America, or in Texas, a land over which six flags have flown. The seventh flag, ultimately, is not one of a state or a nation, but of a mosaic of cultures, religions, and people from every corner of the world—all struggling to define what it means to be unified under an ambiguous banner.
The Seventh Flag
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Author : John Proctor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-12
The Seventh Flag written by John Proctor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12 with History categories.
Little is known about the Indians in North America. At best, they are displayed as ignorant savages whose only purpose was to impede the progress of civilization. Consequently, historians frequently overlook the contributions made by American Indians. The Comanche Indians in Texas had a decided influence in the making of an independent Texas. The Comanches, themselves, were not aware of their contribution. The Comanches, though, were as important to Texas as Stephen Austin and Sam Houston. These three entities when combined made for an independent Texas. If any one of the three defaulted or were absent, there would not have been a Texas as we know it. This book introduces the reader to the Comanche's way of life; their government, and their uniqueness as a people. The reader comes away with the knowledge that the Comanches, although lived in the Stone Age, were human beings with aspirations much like other people. Early in the life of Texas, political forces began to focus on Texas. Spain had claimed Texas for 300 years but never really had an interest in Texas. Nevertheless, Spain feared that its European rivals, Britain and France, coveted Texas. Spain did not have resources to control events without help from outside its system. Through diplomacy, Spain hoped to control Texas and to keep it as its own by inviting Americans to live in Texas as Spanish citizens. A key factor in this decision was Comanche raiders crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. Might the Comanches then raid nearby American settlements in Texas rather than crossing into Mexico?
Against The 7th Flag
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Author : L. J. Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-17
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Against The 7th Flag
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Author : Larry Jay Martin
language : en
Publisher: Domain
Release Date : 1991
Against The 7th Flag written by Larry Jay Martin and has been published by Domain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Fiction categories.
A Seventh Flag For Texas Fiction
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Author : Fred Spagnoletti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
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Sun In Their Eyes
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Author : Monte Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Sun In Their Eyes written by Monte Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Texas categories.
Texas under six flags everybody knows. This is the story of the seventh flag that historians generally overlook. In 1812 Texas was a remote Spanish province, vast, rich, undeveloped--an empire eyed covetously by westward-moving Americans.
The Flag Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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Under Seven Flags
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Author : Robert Preston Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957-01-01
Under Seven Flags written by Robert Preston Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957-01-01 with categories.
Seven Flag Days
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Author : Melissa Hudnall Greenwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Seven Flag Days written by Melissa Hudnall Greenwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with categories.