‘Forget the Alamo’ this month at Lark & Owl Booksellers

The history of the Battle of the Alamo will be discussed during an upcoming book event at Lark & Owl Booksellers in downtown Georgetown. The event, which begins at 7 p.m., October 21, at the bookstore, features a conversation between the authors of Forget The Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth.

The book was authored by three Texan writers: Bryan Burrough, previously a Vanity Fair correspondent and a New York Times bestseller; Chris Tomlinson, a New York Times bestseller and columnist for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News; and Jason Stanford, a political consultant and former communications director for the mayor of Austin.

Their book attempts to dispel commonly held myths about the Alamo and its history.

“There’s no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle, but setting Texas up to win the war,” an event press release reads. “However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. It’s the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that’s gotten awfully dark.”

Tickets to the event are $5 and must be reserved online through the bookstore’s EventBrite page, www.eventbrite.com/e/forget- the-alamo-author-event-tickets- 428013097697. Paperback copies of the book will be available for purchase for $19 each. The event will be facilitated by Dr. Joseph E. Hower, assistant professor of history at Southwestern University.

Additional information about the book and its authors is available online at www.penguinrandomhouse. com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo- by-bryan-burrou gh-chris-tomlinson- and-jason-stanford.