{"product_id":"9780292712263","title":"Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best \u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, \"My Most Unforgettable Year,\" about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record \"the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48425657172208,"sku":"9780292712263","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780292712263_p0.jpg?v=1772497543","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780292712263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}