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Texas Confidential

Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State
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"Everything is bigger in Texas," as the saying goes, and this certainly applies to the history of sleaze, iniquity, and violence associated with the Lone Star State. Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem provides a glimpse at the state's seamy underbelly and delves into some of the most striking episodes of lust, corruption, slaughter, and chaos in Texas and the people who have perpetrated them. To a colorful rogues' gallery of lunatics, corrupt politicians, prostitutes, murderers, and every other sort of scoundrel that appears in the book, author Michael O. Varhola has added a smattering of UFOs, mythological beasts, and other paranormal oddities. Specific chapters among the 54 that appear in Texas Confidential include "Rogues of the Alamo," a look at the things that just about everyone connected with the famous battle had to hide; "The Ivory Tower of Death," on the bloody 1966 University of Texas rampage that left 18 people dead and 42 wounded; "Porno, Texas Style," which includes a list of adult actors from the state; and "The Aurora UFO Incident," about the state's oldest documented UFO incident, which occurred in 1897.

Author Biography:

Michael O. Varhola is a writer, editor, publisher, and journalist who lives in the Hill Country north of San Antonio, Texas. He has authored or co-authored 10 non-fiction books, including Texas Confidential, Life in Civil War America, Ghosthunting Maryland, Ghosthunting Virginia, Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes, and Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950 -- 1953. Varhola studied at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, and at the American University of Paris before earning a B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park and is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Army. Varhola also has an active online presence, notably through his TravelBlogue, Facebook, and on a variety of other blogs, forums, and sites.
Release date Australia
August 4th, 2011
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
B&W photos throughout
Imprint
Clerisy Press
Pages
272
Publisher
Clerisy Press
Dimensions
178x229x25
ISBN-13
9781578604586
Product ID
10389453

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