It paints a not-so-favorable picture of some of the Texians who died at the Alamo, such as William Travis, a lawyer and land speculator who abandoned his wife an children in Alabama when he fled to Texas one step ahead of his creditors, and James Bowie, slave trader and shady land speculator who married into a prosperous Tejano family. It also talks about the fights on how to preserve the ex-mission as a memorial.
Two other books on the Alamo I've read recently that I liked are "Sleuthing the Alamo", by James E. Crisp, which talks about (and includes samples of) "Texas History Movies", which are actually comics a la Jack Chick that were distributed in Texas schools (and incredibly racist even for the 1930s-50s), and "Alamo All-Stars", a graphic book by Nathan ("No Relation"
Hale that was the first book I came across that talked about the Tejano defenders of the Alamo.
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