First Printing. Book has bump to spine ends and some toning to page edges, else Fine. Jacket has scuffing along top edge and chipping at spine ends, some toning. Not price clipped. Fuermann examines "a modern Texas obscured by myth and make-believe, a state seen always from the other side of the looking glass. Here is a name-by-name focus on millionaires and martyrs, oil and oligarchy, excess and eccentricity. (in 1957).

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Title: Reluctant Empire
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1957
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: E. M. Schiwetz
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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