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Texas Literary Outlaws : Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond, Paperback / softback Book

Texas Literary Outlaws : Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond Paperback / softback

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At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas’s conservative establishment.

Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers—Bud Shrake, Larry L.

King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent—closely observed the effects of the Vietnam War; the Kennedy assassination; the rapid population shift from rural to urban environments; Lyndon Johnson’s rise to national prominence; the Civil Rights Movement; Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys; Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker and the new Outlaw music scene; the birth of a Texas film industry; Texas Monthly magazine; the flowering of “Texas Chic”; and Ann Richards’s election as governor. In Texas Literary Outlaws, Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

Despite their popular image, the Mad Dogs were deadly serious as they turned their gaze on their home state, and they chronicled Texas culture with daring, wit, and sophistication.

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