A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles
A new look at the last 150 years of Texas’s contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state’s famous, infamous, and unsung figures.
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“Smoothly tackling this near-herculean research task, he writes in prose as cool as a trout stream.”
—The New York Times
“The best guide we have to the history of politics and race in Texas”
—Nicholas Lemann, former executive editor of Texas Monthly, contributing writer to The New Yorker, Dean Emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
“'A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles' may be the best book written about the intersection of race and politics throughout Texas history."
—Cary Clack, San Antonio Express-News
“In 'A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles', his masterpiece, he shifts history's kaleidoscope, bringing to vivid life a revisionist view of the Lone Star State, a Texas most of us never knew.”
—Joe Holley, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, and author of "Sutherland Springs: God, Guns and Hope in a Texas Town"
“Bill Minutaglio is the ultimate spirit guide through the chaotic, raw, eternally grasping but occasionally semi-uplifting struggle for dominance in Texas. In the years to come, 'A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles' will be the go-to volume for readers who dare to peek under the hood of Texas politics."
—Stephen Harrigan, contributing writer Texas Monthly and author of "Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas"
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