“Full of high-falutin’ good humor with plenty of Texas size brags.”
—Book of the Southwest
“Very hard to put down.”
—Texas Talk
Texas: A World unto Itself is the lively intimate story of contemporary Texas and Texans. It is written by a Texan with an eye for humor, a keen nose for pomposity, and an American, as opposed to Texan, viewpoint.
Listen to the author describe how he gathered the inspiration and material for this book: “In Texas we do things by counties. I was born in Milam County(‘Who’ll go into Bexar with Old Ben Milam?’), went to academies in Brazos and Tarrant Counties, universities in Williamson and Harris Counties. I courted in Jefferson County and honeymooned in Webb. In these and other counties I have worked at various unimportant jobs, but mostly I just sort of him around, trying to figure out what was going on, what my neighbors were thinking about, wishing for, and feeling.
“Much of the time I sat in the shade and wrote books and stories. As a matter of fact, I wrote eight very fat novels and several bushels of short stories before anybody ever saw fit to publish what I wrote.”