McKinney, Texas--The First 150 Years [Hardcover]

Julia L. Vargo (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Donning Co (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578640075
• ISBN-13: 978-1578640072
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,124,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars McKinney, Texas The First 150 Years - A Jewel About A Jewel, January 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: McKinney, Texas--The First 150 Years (Hardcover)

I fell in love with McKinney the first time I visited the city in 1994 and at that time promised myself I would live here if ever the opportunity presented itself. I have lived here for almost 3 1/2 years now and very much enjoyed reading the history of this beautiful city that has become my home.

Being a somewhat new resident of McKinney I have an interest in the city's history. I've heard stories from area residents, but when I saw the book at a local business I patronize for auto maintenance and repairs, I immediately asked the owner if he would loan the book to me. My request to borrow "The First 150 Years - McKinney, Texas", was granted with the stipulation I return it to the lender's place of business. Being the honest book lover I am, I returned it safe and sound to the Mr. Sharrock. Thanks, Steve, for letting me borrow "The First 150 Years - McKinney, Texas."

I feel compelled to state that I completely disagree with J.L Robert's review of the book. I found it to be a written and pictorial history of the city, not a book with a political agenda. To label it an effort by the author to promote the Democratic party or advance a political agenda is ludicrous, to say the least.

Does it honesty matter if there are no Republicans in the book? I doubt seriously that all who appear in the pages were or are Democrats. The fact that many probably were Republican, but do not flaunt their party affiliation or stand and publicly denounce Democratic politics is irrelevant, except to Mr. Robert. I have never met the man in person, but have been told that the only agenda he would be interested in promoting is his own and have heard from numerous sources, both Republican and Democrat, that the man has absolutely no tolerance for an opinion that might be in disagreement with his own.

I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to take a walk down memory lane and see McKinney as it was, and still is--a jewel!

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Liberal" Arts, May 28, 2000

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Jim L. Roberts (Collin County Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McKinney, Texas--The First 150 Years (Hardcover)

5/25/00

After a review of the Author's "Acknowledging and "Introducing" herself immediately under the guise of humility, this supposed history book it is laced throughout with tributes to DEMOCRATS and all who were supporters of them. Its a political history of the democrat party using the City of McKinney as a front.

References and accolades to everybody in LBJ's family except their dog, numerous Sam Rayburn references and anybody that was a supporter of a democrat has their trumpet blown in this book.

NOT ONE REPUBLICAN IS MENTIONED IN THIS BOOK

As if we never had ANY political figures from the state of Texas that made ANY contribution to our country THAT HAPPEN TO BE REPUBLICANS like the military savior of the world AND TWO TERM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FROM TEXAS, DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER, OR ANOTHER WAR HERO AND LIBERATOR OF KUWAIT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, JUST TO NAME A COUPLE.

The author of this book is a member of the city council of McKinney. The Author is obviously a political opportunist of the Liberal persuasion. I found the book to be offensive in its usage of overtly political advocacy of members of her party under the front of history at the exclusion of history itself.

The Author uses fronts. I wonder if the author votes Republican.

Jim L. Roberts 9.17.1787