The Wooden Horseshoe [novel, Fiction, Small Town Texas, Power and City Government, Max Berger, saga]

Clean and Unmarked Text: Doubleday and Company Inc 1964 / Stated First Edition. Hard Back / Cloth Binding. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Novel / Fiction / Enjoyable Reading. Hardback : hard cover edition in good plus condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Some minor bumping or scuffs. Some soil on the ends of pages when book is closed, minor. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make an ideal gift for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. ABOUT: An uncanny understanding of both city-council operations and the newspaper business some thirty years ago gave Leonard Sanders the ability to write this powerful novel about a small Texas city and the men who run it. Sanders has combined the struggle for power in a local city government and the human interest side of its effects on the people close to the inside in an appealing and revealing story centered around an ambitious water project designed to further the city's growth. Different views about the future of the city arise from the personalities of those who must decide. Some council men, like local businessman Max Berger, put their own agenda before what should be done for the city. Others, like Dr. Travis McNeil and wealthy rancher Cal Masters, have the city's best interest at heart and must stand their ground to fight for what they believe is right. By working through the plans for city expansion, the men who sit around the horseshoe-shaped council table come to realize the strains that they have been under from their work with the council. City Manager David Hartwell knows that the many hours he spends in the office have affected his family and have caused the problems that they are facing. In the same way, newspaper reporter Tom Kencaide finds that his commitment to covering the council and exposing the truth has kept him from committing to his fiance and reporting the news he feels the people should hear. The Wooden Horseshoe, first published by Doubleday in 1964, shows that city government can consume the ones who take part in it. Those involved have to decide if they can reach a point where they do what is best for the city as well as for themselves. About the Author: Novelist LEONARD SANDERS is a former newspaper journalist and book review editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Wooden Horseshoe was his first novel. Other titles include Fort Worth, The Hamlet Warning and The Hamlet Ultimatum, Sonoma, and his most recent, In the Valley of the Shadow. Sanders lives in Fort Worth. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you.