{"product_id":"the-last-sheriff-in-texas","title":"The last sheriff in Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The last sheriff in Texas (Hardcover, 272 pages – Counterpoint, 2017) – Counterpoint, 2017. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small-town election pits a violent if popular sheriff against those eager to see his iron rule end in this \"riveting\" historical true crime story about a landmark standoff between old time justice in 1940s small town Texas and a modern, more inclusive vision of the West (Dallas Morning News).Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns―the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point-blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more.Time magazine’s full-page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from all across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville’s favorite son, Johnny Barnhart.Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again.The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo-Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban-rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, mistrust of politicians and the political process―all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James P. McCollom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53096876998880,"sku":"9781619029965","price":65.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/81Kd7QN2EIL._SY522.jpg?v=1781680973","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/the-last-sheriff-in-texas","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}