Books by Bill Minutaglio and Complete Book Reviews

Bill Minutaglio, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-018541-1
Like the explosions it describes, Minutaglio's account is incendiary reading. Two oceangoing freighters loaded with ammonium nitrate leveled a factory town in 1947. Was it an atomic blast? Terrorism? Judgment Day? The author (First Son: George W.
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Bill Minutaglio, Author . Rayo $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-111920-0
Although a taciturn and reputedly uncharismatic man, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rose from his beginnings in Humble, Tex., to become one of the most powerful men in America. In a biography that reads like a novel, Minutaglio traces the Mexican-
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Bill Minutaglio, Author Crown Publishers $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8129-3139-6
How did George W. Bush, ""the turbulent cosmos inside every family gathering in Maine,"" rein in his impulsiveness and his temper, his resentment and his considerable wild side, to become the smiling prophet of ""compassionate conservatism,"" two-ter
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Bill Minutaglio, Author, Roscoe Born, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-41021-5
Reading his own earnest introduction, Minutaglio (a features writer for the Dallas Morning News) explains the tone and methodology of his portrait of Republican presidential front-runner Bush. Though the biography is not officially ""authorized,""...
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Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. Twelve, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2209-5
After 50 years, it’s a challenge to fashion a new lens with which to view the tragic events of Nov. 22, 1963—yet Texans Minutaglio (City On Fire) and Davis (Texas Literary Outlaws) pull it off brilliantly. The assassination in Dealey Plaza marks the
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Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis. Twelve, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6358-6
Minutaglio and Davis (Dallas 1963) make use of newly declassified FBI documents and secret White House recordings to chronicle the 28-month global hunt for Dr. Timothy Leary in this rip-roaring slice of American history. Leary, a Harvard psychology...
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Bill Minutaglio. Univ. of Texas, $29.95 (456p) ISBN 978-1-4773-1036-6
Journalist Minutaglio (coauthor, Dallas 1963) delivers a vibrant political history of Texas from the 1870s to the 2020 presidential election. He describes how the former slave owners and Confederate soldiers who settled in Texas after the Civil War...
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  • The Road to Nov. 22, 1963: PW Talks with Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
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