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Good Reads: July | August 2014

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New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe Charlie Chaplin, Director By Donna Kornhaber We know him best as the mustachioed actor who was the biggest star of...

 
 

July|August Alumni Authors

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Broken Brain By Joseph Huerta, BA ’89, JD ’93 Joseph Huerta jumped right into personal-injury law after graduating from UT. He had seen it all—from car accidents...

 
 

March|April Alumni Authors

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Short Boat on a Long River By Jim Cockrum, BJ ’51, MJ ’55, Life Member St. Paul, Minn., 1904: A boat race is about to begin along the Mississippi River, and...

 
 

UT Press Announces Texas-Sized Book Series [Listen]

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In his 1962 book Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck had this to say about Texas: “For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance,...

 
 

July|August Alumni Authors

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Cowboy Stuntman By Dean Smith, ’55, with Mike Cox Dean Smith’s biography is so colorful, it could easily be a film. After growing up in a small Texas town,...

 
 

May|June Alumni Authors

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Chickamagua 1863: Rebel Breakthrough By Alexander Mendoza, BJ ’93, Life Member University of North Texas professor Mendoza is an expert in military history. In...

 
 

Alumni Authors

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Cancer on the Brain: One Man’s Journey of Baseball, Business, and Beating the Odds By William J. Cobb, MA ’84 Lefevers is a Phoenix real-estate entrepreneur,...

 
 

Good Reads: New Books of Interest for the Longhorn Universe

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Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina By Javier Auyero From the checkout line at the grocery store to the DMV, we hate to be kept waiting,...

 
 

Alumni Authors: From James Madison to the Blues

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—RECENTLY PUBLISHED— Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty by Jane Clements Monday, BS ’63, Distinguished Alumna, and Frances Brannen Vick,...

 
 

Edible Book Festival: Room for Readers, Eaters, and Wit

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Can’t see this slideshow? Click here. Have you ever eaten your words? Not like this, you haven’t. Surely the wackiest of UT events, the Edible Book...

 
 
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