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S. C. Gwynne

S. C. Gwynne

S. C. Gwynne

Sam Gwynne is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared extensively in Time, for which he worked as bureau chief, national correspondent and senior editor from 1988 to 2000, and in Texas Monthly, where he was executive editor. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and California Magazine. His previous book Outlaw Bank (co-authored with Jonathan Beaty) detailed the rise and fall of the corrupt global bank BCCI. He attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins and lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Katie and daughter Maisie.

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The Rise and Fall of the Comanches
May 10, 2011
Empire of the Summer Moon will be released on May 10, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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Life's Like That - May 22, 2011
San Marcos Daily Record, May 22, 2011
...you don't have just a book with you, you have a library. I have just finished reading S. C. Gwynne's “Empire of the August Moon.” This was one of the best books on the Comanches I have had the pleasure of reading – partly because I grew...
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Texas Monthly, February 23, 2012
...I hate flying. I don’t mean that I’m a legitimate, doctor-approved aerophobe who munches Xanax like candy and lunges for the barf bag at the first sign of turbulence. I just dislike the minor ordeal of air travel—the security lines, the required...
How Comanches Used Books as Armor: Quote of the Day
One-Minute Book Reviews, September 25, 2011
...s Bible in it. Why had the Comanches taken the book when they fled their victim's cabin? S. C. Gwynne writes in Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall the the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History(Scribner,...
Is The Kindle a Swindle?
Auxiliary Memory, July 14, 2011
...$10.87 trade, $9.99 Kindle).  Next month’s book club selection, Empire of the Summer Moon S. C. Gwynne, it’s 39 cents cheaper to buy the trade edition instead of the Kindle Edition ($9.60 trade, $9.99 Kindle). Of course, there is an illusion here...
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New York History, June 2, 2011
...Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne Gwynne doesn't merely retell the story of Parker's life. He pulls his readers through an American frontier roiling with extreme violence,...