The Observer Recommends 10 Texas Books of 2021
From correcting the record on racism and Texas history, to the #MeToo movement in federal courts, we rounded up some of our favorite books.
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From correcting the record on racism and Texas history, to the #MeToo movement in federal courts, we rounded up some of our favorite books.
"I rob banks," John Dillinger would sometimes say by way of introduction. It was the simple truth. That was what he did. For the 13 months between the day he escaped from prison and the night he lay dying in an alley, he robbed banks. It was his lifetime. Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" accepts that stark fact and refuses any temptation to soften it. Dillinger was not a nice man.
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George Roberts and Henry Kravis have handed over day-to-day running of the company they founded with Jerome Kohlberg in 1976
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