'Texas Confidential' Table of Contents

Following is the final table of contents for Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State! This list evolved over the course of the past year, as we added, deleted, and modified its entries, eventually bringing it in at the 54 chapters and various front and back matter elements that appear below. Annotated chapter listings for the Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem sections follow as separate posts.

FOREWORD by Jesse Sublett
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION

SEX
1) Texas Vice
2) Miss Hattie’s Bordello
3) Porno, Texas Style
4) Walking Tall in the White House
5) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
6) Going Down to Get Ahead
7) Paying for It, Lying About It — And Getting Away With It
8) Below the Bench
9) Now All Sex is Fine in Texas
10) A Risky Proposition
11) Anna Nicole Smith
12) Sex Toys Now Legal in Texas!
13) Mark of Shame

SCANDAL
1) Jean Lafitte
2) Rogues of the Alamo
3) “Ma” and “Pa” Ferguson
4) The Veterans’ Land Board Scandal
5) King of the Wheeler-Dealers
6) The Sharpstown Stock Scandal
7) The Duke of Duval County
8) Charlie Wilson’s Whore (and More)
9) The Enron Scandal
10) Rathergate
11) A Spacewoman Scorned
12) The Love of Money …
13) Friday Night Lies

MURDER
1) The Border Reivers
2) The Nueces Massacre
3) The Way of the Gun
4) The Death of Ambrose Bierce
5) Texas Ser-y’all Killers
6) The Ivory Tower of Death
7) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
8) The Crime of the Century
9) The Women of Death Row
10) A Fatal Attraction
11) The Most Hated Woman in America
12) (Bad) Mothers of the Year
13) Cruel Justice
14) A Texas Murder Trial
15) Joe Stack and the IRS

MAYHEM
1) The Texas Indian Wars
2) Crime and Punishment
3) The Texas State Police
4) The Marfa Lights
5) The Aurora UFO Incident
6) Howard the Barbarian
7) The Paperclip Swastika
8) The Texas City Disaster
9) Mistreating the Treaty Tree
10) Legend of the Chupacabra
11) Zombies Ahead!
12) Let the Bad Times Roll
13) Gangland Texas

BIBLIOGRAPHY & RESOURCES