Picturing Texas Politics : : A Photographic History from Sam Houston to Rick Perry / / Chuck Bailey, Patrick L. Cox.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bailey, Chuck,; Cox, Patrick L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Focus on American History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Photography and Politics --; Chapter 1: Republic of Texas to Civil War and Reconstruction --; Chapter 2: Reform and Growth from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century --; Chapter 3: Texas in the Great Depression and World War II --; Chapter 4: Modern Texas --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; List of Photographic Sources --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477329252; 9783110745337
• DOI: 10.7560/302545
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chuck Bailey, Patrick L. Cox.

With rare, previously unpublished photographs and iconic images of politicians from the state’s founders to Ann Richards, George W. Bush, and Rick Perry, here is the first-ever photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns. The Republic of Texas was founded in 1839, around the time that photography was being invented. So while there were no photographers at the Alamo or San Jacinto, they arrived soon after to immortalize, on film, Sam Houston, David Burnett, Mirabeau Lamar, and many other founding fathers of the Lone Star State. Over the following nearly two centuries, Texas politics and politicians have provided reliable, often dramatic, and sometimes larger-than-life subjects for photographers to capture in the moment and add to the historical record. Picturing Texas Politics presents the first photographic album of Texas politicians and political campaigns ever assembled. Chuck Bailey has searched archives, museums, libraries, and private collections to find photographs that have never been published, as well as iconic images, such as Russell Lee’s pictures of one of Ralph Yarborough’s campaigns. These photographs are arranged into four chronological sections, each one introduced by historian Patrick Cox, who also provides informative photo captions. The photographs display power and political savvy from the early Republic to Lyndon Johnson and Bob Bullock; unmatched dedication to Texas in the Hobby and Bush families; and the growing influence of women in politics, from Miriam “Ma” Ferguson to Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and Kay Bailey Hutchison. With Sam Houston’s jaguar vest, W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel’s hillbilly band, a famous governor with an ostrich, and prominent Texans eating watermelons, shooting guns, and riding horses, this is Texas politics at its liveliest and best.