T.R. Fehrenbach RIP

[LarryC]

Hey, you Texans -- T.R. Fehrenbach, excellent historian and author of a highly-regarded history of Texas, has died at the age of 88. Even though "Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans" was written in 1968, "there's not another book that has pushed it aside," said the director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in 2010. The publisher of the 2000 updated version said he could think of only one other book that began with "In the beginning." ("In the beginning, before any people was the land").

I haven't read that book, but was greatly impressed by his 1963 history of the Korean War, "This Kind of War."

A Washington Post bio stated that his writing style borrowed elements from Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the king James Bible -- works that inspired Winston Churchill's writing.

See:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/tr-fehrenbach-texas-historian-dies-at-88/2013/12/07/9752163c-5f61-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html

Edited December 9, 2013 by LarryC

[Mallette]

I have that book. Awesome work, and good read for anybody who seeks to understand why Texans ask "Which...ours or yours?" when the subject of "The Revolution" comes up.

Dave