Texas Loud Proud and Brash

<P>The history of New Texas the Texas we know today—oil-rich insufferably loud and unbearably proud of itself—begins in the late 1920s when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation. In slightly over two decades ten individuals—their words actions and accomplishments—come to define the New Texas of the twenty-first century. While the history of Old Texas rests on oft-told legends of Houston Austin Travis Crockett Rusk Lamar and Seguin today’s New Texas—proud loud self-promotional sports-crazy and too rich for its own good—is the Texas that percolates throughout the nation’s popular culture.</P><P>In<I> Texas Loud Proud and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State </I>author Rusty Williams profiles ten largely unsung men and women responsible for the Texas you love hate and (secretly) envy today.<I></I></P>