Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukaemia-stricken son Mar, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over 25 years, readers of "Texas Monthly" have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humour. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over the last decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result. This book collects 17 of Cartwright's best "Texas Monthly" articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year", about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracle, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In the author's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home".