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Dallas first grabbed the countrywide thoughts in 1936 when it hosted the Texas Centennial Exposition. Since that time, the desire for Big D has seldom flagged. When the assassination of Leader Kennedy in 1963 cast a pall over the town, the success of the Dallas Cowboys and the popularity of the television series Dallas revived the image of an glitzy, hustling metropolis at the guts of the Sunbelt. In this particular concise review, Hazel examines the city's root base as a frontier market town, its development as a local transportation center, and its own growing aches as it got into the 20th century. Ku Klux Klan dominance in the 1920s is chronicled, as well as the half-century of control by at the very top group of businessmen. The narrative concludes with a look at today's city, fighting issues of diversity. The author gives special attention to the role of cultural groupings in shaping Dallas: the French colonists of the 1850s; the German, Swiss, and Italian immigrants of the 1870s and 1880s; the Mexican Americans of the early on-20th century; and the Southeast Asians of recent years. He also examines the role of African Americans, who was included with the first Anglos and battled for more than a century to gain equality. Dallas: A BRIEF HISTORY of Big D is dependant on pioneer letters and reminiscences, as well as the research of recent years. Written in a popular style, it will appeal to scholars and general listeners curious about how Dallas grew to become the nation's 8th largest city.
