The historian and writer David McCullough will speak tonight as part of the World Affairs Council’s 60th Anniversary Lecture Series. In the Dallas Morning News, he speaks with Bill Marvel about his deep love of the state and how close he came to writing a book about the women of Texas:
I love all the malarkey of Texas,” he says. “I love the tall tales, the bull-slinging, the exaggeration. I love the fact that Texans fly the Texas flag and talk Texan. And the sense that no matter how low you get, you can come back again.”
Years later, he began thinking about a Texas book. What was needed, he decided, was a history of the women of Texas. “They have some of the expected charm and appeal of Southern women, but there’s a pioneer attitude, too, a Western attitude that I really like.”
But a woman should write that book, he decided.
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I heard him speak a few years back at the Friends of Richardson Library, one of the most captivating speakers I’ve ever heard.
He’s right about Texas Women. I saw the play about Molly Ivins last year and the play about Ann Richards earlier this year. Both were inspiring plays about remarkable women. And then there’s Barbara Jordan, who was mentioned in both plays