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Book SynopsisThe story of a bittersweet, impromptu art exhibition for President and Mrs. Kennedy
Trade Review“Hotel Texas offers a rewarding aesthetic experience, as well as a history lesson.”—Clare Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement
-- Clare Griffiths * Times Literary Supplement *
“[a] fascinating book.”—Martin Filler,
New York Review of Books -- Martin Filler * New York Review of Books *
“Given today's astronomical art prices and insurance costs, as well as increasingly restrictive standards for the handling and display of art, it's unlikely that even local collector-philanthropist Ruth Carter Johnson (later Stevenson). . . and her art friends would today be able to put together a hotel room display of this quality. But they rose to the challenge, and the cultural elite of Fort Worth were presumably also making a statement about their place in the city's longstanding competition with Dallas. That rivalry, as well as that moment in time at that place, are explored in several excellent essays by Olivier Meslay, David M. Lubin and others in the exhibition catalog.”
—Wall Street Journal * Wall Street Journal *
