Tucson: A Drama in Time

Warnock, John

ISBN 10: 1627877061 / ISBN 13: 9781627877060

Published by Wheatmark, 2019

About this Item

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 476 p. Contains: Unspecified. Audience: General/trade. Fine. Signed by author. excellent condition, first printing, inscribed by the author.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0024865

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tucson: A Drama in Time
• Publisher: Wheatmark
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627877061
• ISBN 13: 9781627877060
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: First edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A must-read

"A must-read for anyone who cares about how we got where we are. Full of detail that both surprises and explains."
— Jonathan Rothschild, Mayor of Tucson, 2011–2019

This account of the drama in time that is Tucson begins not with the founding of the Presidio San Agustín on August 20, 1775, but with the emergence of Sentinel Peak in geologic deep time. It ends -- "To be continued" -- in 2014.

It spans the periods of precontact with Europeans, Spanish colonization, Mexican nationhood, the territorial West, early and Depression era statehood, and the development of metropolitan Tucson after World War II.

It offers not one definitive historical account but a collection of stories in which threads appear that may disappear beneath the surface for a while and reappear later, like some desert streams. It leaves spaces for, and invites the stories of, its readers.

About the Author

John Warnock was born in Tucson and graduated from Tucson High when it was one of the largest high schools in the nation. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, Oxford University in England, and the New York University School of Law. After teaching at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, he returned to Tucson in 1990 to join the English Department at the University of Arizona. He is now Professor Emeritus at UA and resides in Tucson.