Asher Price and his new book "Earl Campbell - Yards after Contact" 1-30-2020

Our guest is Austin Texas author and journalist ASHER PRICE who writes about energy and the environment for the Austin American-Statesman. Asher has published three books and we discussed his two latest publications: His latest is a biography of Earl Campbell – Yards after Contact published in the fall of 2019. About racial divides in East Texas, the University of Texas at Austin, and how Earl Campbell became an icon running back for the Houston Oilers, then on to the N.O. Saints to follow Bum Phillips Year of the Dunk, a memoir published in 2016 about basketball, cancer and the frontiers of human potential and his yearlong quest to slam-dunk a basketball in a 10-foot high rim! The Great Texas Wind Rush – about the historic growth of wind power in Texas. Co-authored with Kate Galbraith in 2013. It is the backstory about how the oil-and-gas state became the country's top producer of wind power.