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Women and the Texas Revolution ed. by Mary L. Sheer (review)

Women and the Texas Revolution ed. by Mary L. Sheer (review) Book Reviews tends that warfare continued to exist in the former Confederacy in order to return the South to its antebellum order. Texas became "the home of terrorist groups and outlaw gangs that were supported by the dominant Democratic Party" (198). In the essay that follows, James M. McCaffrey examines the effort to recruit yellow-fever survivors to serve during the Spanish-American War in a program that was dismally unsuccessful due to insubordination, drunkenness, and other misdeeds. In a chapter titled "Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence and the Tejano Community during World War I," José A. Ramirez comments on the difficulties Tejanos experienced as a result of the American suspicions toward Mexico. "Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival" by Kelly E. Crager highlights the horrors experienced by a select group of prisoners for whom, the author maintains, "a common Texas heritage and identity helped these men bond very closely" (239). In "Lyndon B. Johnson's `Bitch of a War'" James M. Smallwood offers that in the United States the struggle came to be known as "Mr. Johnson's War," as the "torn president" had no solution to the protracted war. In the end his presidency crumbled, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

Women and the Texas Revolution ed. by Mary L. Sheer (review)

Ramos, Raúl A.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 117 (2) – Sep 18, 2013
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Book Reviews tends that warfare continued to exist in the former Confederacy in order to return the South to its antebellum order. Texas became "the home of terrorist groups and outlaw gangs that were supported by the dominant Democratic Party" (198). In the essay that follows, James M. McCaffrey examines the effort to recruit yellow-fever survivors to serve during the Spanish-American War in a program that was dismally unsuccessful due to insubordination, drunkenness, and other misdeeds. In a chapter titled "Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence and the Tejano Community during World War I," José A. Ramirez comments on the difficulties Tejanos experienced as a result of the American suspicions toward Mexico. "Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival" by Kelly E. Crager highlights the horrors experienced by a select group of prisoners for whom, the author maintains, "a common Texas heritage and identity helped these men bond very closely" (239). In "Lyndon B. Johnson's `Bitch of a War'" James M. Smallwood offers that in the United States the struggle came to be known as "Mr. Johnson's War," as the "torn president" had no solution to the protracted war. In the end his presidency crumbled, and

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Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association

Published: Sep 18, 2013

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