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Article: The Alamo: An Epic.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 15, 1997
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By Michael Lind. Houghton Mifflin, 351 pp., $25.00.
We've lined up for the 20th-anniversary reissue of the science-fantasy epic Star Wars. We've imagined the voluptuous Vanessa Williams as Circe in the made-for-TV version of Homer's epic, the Odyssey. Now we can relive a crucial event in U.S. history: the epic battle of the Alamo, recounted in Michael Lind's book-length poem. Lind appeals to the popular taste for epic grandeur and aims to fulfill epic's traditional role of celebrating the nation and its heroes. He traces the events leading up to the fight for Texan independence through the career of William Barrett Travis, the 26-year-old commander of the ...
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