The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City

by Harvey J. Graff

Book Overview

The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is exceptional among American cities for the claims of its elites and boosters that it is a "city with no limits" and a "city with no history." Home to the Dallas Cowboys, self-styled as "America's Team," setting for the television series that glamorized its values of self-invention and success, and site of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas looms disproportionately large in the American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816652708
• ISBN13: 9780816652709
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"