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I pretty much but, in hardcopy, any grownup (and some kids) book about Longhorn football. I was going to ask if anyone could recommend the Unlang coffee table book, “Texas is Back”, but, who am I kidding? I’m going to buy it. Anyway- categories and recommendations:

Books by era:

Sarkisian: the Umlang book, and the book the AAS issued last year to recap the Big XII years. 
Herman: unaware of any books

Strong: Mac Engel wrote a book covering one weekend of HS, college and pro football in DFW. That TCU prick fully expected OU to drill Texas that one Fall Saturday in 2015. Ha!

Brown: Probably the Brown/Little (mostly Little) “One Heartbeat”. 
Mackovic: there is a coffee table book “Texas Longhorn Football Today”, heavy on pictures. That’s about it. 
McWilliams: “Bleeding Orange” by Bohls/Maher. 
Akers: “The Courtship of Marcus DuPree” by Willie Morris is the best we have. Short on real Longhorn info, heavy on literary quality. 
Royal: a ton of books. The best two were ghostwritten by Blackie Sherrod- “Darrell Royal Talks Football” and “I Play to Win” (Freddie Steinmark). (I bought Dave Campbell’s copy of the former from his estate sale- the Sherrod quip by his signature is “This was a real ‘labor of loot’”. 
Price: nada

Cherry: he wrote an article in the Saturday Evening Post, called “Why I Quit Football” with more insight (and bitching) than most books. 
Bible: “Championship Football” by DX Bible- a hard slog. 

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Horns Hogs and Nixon Coming. 1969 Game of the Century 

My dad went to the game on my 9th birthday. About the only thing I wasn’t pissed at him about 

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