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Tucson (AZ) (Images of America) (Images of America: Arizona)

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I am trying very hard to get your attention and this is the only way I know to do it. Images of America: Tucson Arizona is a great book. I know because I wrote it. I do not have such an ego that I want to review my book. However, when I type in my name as the Author --"Jane Eppinga" it says that the Tucson book is not yet published. IT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED FOR OVER TWO MONTHS. Could someone update this information? Sincerely Jane Eppinga

The "Tucson Arizona" book in the IMAGES OF AMERICA series is one that should interest a wide variety of readers. In my mind, it would be a great book to have on the nightstand in a guest room.

Anyone new to the Tucson area (as just-arrived resident or short-term tourist) would find a rich, lively pictorial overview of one of America's great cities. Those with past associations with Tucson would delight in pictures that jog the memory--from the early founders of the well-known Drachman family, to the beginnings of the UA Old Main, to a shot of director Eduardo Caso rehearsing the world-famous Tucson Boys Choir under the outstretched arms of a giant saguaro.

Plenty of pictures emphasize the rich ethnic diversity of Tucson, including the many Native American tribes that laid the groundwork for the city, to the Latino citizens that ranched and farmed throughout the 19th century and into the present, to Henry Ossian Flipper, ex-slave and West Point's first black graduate, who represented the U.S. government in the court of land claims. Jewish pioneers, Muslim and Greek orthodox settlers, and many more are here.

I'd be hard put to name any other one book that could give as good a picture of such a stretch of time in a city's history, short of a thick scholarly work. Almost any reader who gives Jane Eppinga's TUCSON ARIZONA a look is bound to end up exclaiming, "I didn't know that!" Or "Look at this great photo!" The book is, in short, both entertaining and informative. I enjoyed it!

This book series is hardly a wealth of historical knowledge, but this particular tome is one of the worst I've seen. I could reveal many of the mistakes, but I will leave those joyous discoveries for the sure to be upset and head-shaking reader. As a teaser, I will mention that the Battle of the Alamo was in 1836...not 1838 as was mentioned next to Esparza's photo, p.38.