FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TWELVE TO PUBLISH DALLAS 1963
by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis

December 1, 2011— Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis’s DALLAS 1963, a riveting account of how a group of larger-than-life individuals turned Dallas into a city that became infamous for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, will be published by Twelve, it was announced today by Cary Goldstein, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Twelve/Hachette Book Group.
 
DALLAS 1963 follows the city through three turbulent years, beginning with the Kennedy election in November 1960 and ending on November 22, 1963. Set against the backdrop of a nation in transition, Minutaglio and Davis explain what the President and his team were thinking and doing in those three years, and why they could never have really understood the swirling forces awaiting them in Texas, where a rich and surprising ensemble of characters defined the city many people would blame for killing the President: rabid politicos, gangsters, unsung civil rights leaders, strippers, billionaires, defrocked military generals, fundamentalist preachers, clandestine heroes, and marauding police, among them.  Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, DALLAS 1963 will be a sobering reminder of how “ordinary” America can turn into something else entirely.

“DALLAS 1963 is unique among treatments of the assassination,” said Goldstein. “Through the biography of a city, the authors present a clear, cinematic and revelatory history of the twentieth century’s most significant event. So forget the shadowy conspiracies, you need look no further than Dallas. It was all there the whole time, just brewing, waiting.”

Bill Minutaglio’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, Outsideand many other publications. He has worked for The Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News and is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including biographies of President George W. Bush, Molly Ivins and Alberto Gonzales, and a narrative retelling of the greatest industrial disaster in American history. Steven L. Davis is the author of two highly praised books on Texas culture, including Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond. His work has appeared inTexas Monthly and the Texas Observer. Both Minutaglio and Davis are members of the Texas Institute of Letters.

TWELVE acquired North American rights, at auction, from David Hale Smith at Inkwell Management, LLC.  Publication is scheduled for Fall 2013.
 
TWELVE, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, was established with the objective of publishing no more than twelve books a year, singular works of fiction and nonfiction by authors who have a unique perspective and compelling authority. Works that explain our culture; that illuminate, inspire, provoke, and entertain.