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Title: The Alamo Reader: A Study in History by Todd Hansen ISBN: 0-8117-0060-7 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Definitive Alamo Source
Comment: At last! A reliable study of the siege and fall of the Alamo,backed up by a wealth of source documents, many published for the first time. At almost 800 pages, The Alamo Reader, edited by Todd Hansen, contains over 300 documents from letters written during the days leading up to the siege to reminiscences written decades later. His commentaries sum up this incredible tour de force of research. Well footnoted, Hansen supplies the raw material so readers can reach their own conclusions
about many controversial issues. A "must read" for any student of Texas history and the Alamo.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great resource for the serious Alamo student
Comment: No reader without at least a basic understanding of the events and personalities connected with the Alamo battle should tackle Todd Hansen's "The Alamo Reader", but once a decent grounding in the history of that famous fight has been acquired -- and if that reader really wants to understand what happened -- then Hansen's book is a marvelous resource. An extraordinary range of primary source material is presented in the volume, and not just excerpts from one version of an eyewitness's account, but the whole of every variation. Hansen provides commentaries to help evaluate these sources for reliability, but the final evaluation of which to accept and which to reject is left to the judgment of the reader. Analytical essays by various noted Alamo experts are also provided for additional illumination. There has been nothing like this ever published about the Alamo before (and seldom about any other historical topic), and I cannot conceive how anyone seriously interested in the Alamo could not want a copy of Hansen's book on their shelves.
Rating: 3
Summary: Grand and flawed
Comment: A long overdue book---a compilation of hundreds of essentially contemporary documents and other accounts concerning the Alamo battle, which comprise its main strength. It's a pity the editor felt it necessary to comment on each historical issue rather than let the accounts speak for themselves, since he falls into the same, subjective, "I-have-a-hunch" trap of so many writers on this subject. E.g., he gives the questionable account of "Ben" more weight than those of Mexican officers regarding Crockett's demise, and on the question of the location of the Alamo flag, completely ignores the drawing by Captain Sanchez-Navarro that explicity places it atop the church. As a source book on the Alamo, this tome stands alone. As reliable scholarship on the subject--reader beware!
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Title: Alamo Traces: New Evidence and New Conclusions by Thomas Ricks Lindley, Stephen Harrigan ISBN: 1556229836 Publisher: Republic of Texas Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Lone Star Rising : The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic by William C. Davis ISBN: 0684865106 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Alamo: The Illustrated Story of the Epic Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook) by Frank Thompson, John Lee Hancock ISBN: 1557046077 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Alamo by Frank Thompson ISBN: 1571458409 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Journey into the Land of Trials by Manley F., Jr. Cobia ISBN: 1577362683 Publisher: Providence House Publishers Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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