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Inventing the Fiesta City (Nonfiction)

by | Jun 23, 2008 | Western Books

Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman, University of New Mexico Press, $29.95, Hardcover.
What is the corazón (heart) of San Antonio as reflected in the April citywide festival called Fiesta? Like so much of Southwestern culture, the Fiesta celebrates the diverse world called Texas Modern. This book is an interwoven history of parades and politics from 1891 to the present, told by a woman whose first memory is of walking the city. Ori


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