The Dallas Myth

The Dallas MythAuthor: Harvey J. Graff ISBN: 9780816652709 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Year first published: 17 Nov 2010 Pages: 424 Format: Paperback softback The Dallas Myth challenges the popular assertion that Dallas is a 'city with no past' a myth that contends that Dallas has no reason to be, has no limits, and sprang from nothing at all. Harvey J. Graff scrutinizes the city's origin myth and its governance ideology, known as the "Dallas Way,"

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a shy teenager in 1970s London

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Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death Row

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