Forget The Alamo by Bryan Burrough
The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
A revisionist narrative that peels back familiar myths about the 1836 siege, arguing the conflict was less a noble stand for liberty than a messy, self-interested episode driven in part by Anglo slaveholders’ expansion, local power struggles, and political chaos; it highlights overlooked actors—Tejanos and Mexican soldiers—details brutal conduct on both sides, and shows how later propaganda reshaped a tactical defeat and subsequent massacres into a sanitized, enduring legend.
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- 2021
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