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The author explains how Texas politicians Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry created a conservative political agenda based on banking deregulation, lax environmental standards, draconian tax cuts, states rights, gun ownership, and sexual abstinence that is now sweeping the country and defining our national identity.
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The proposal to divide Texas into five states, as provided in the Constituion, may not prove popular for "professional Texans."
But native Texan Dr. Donald W. Whisenhunt, a Texas historian and author and editor of numerous Texa books, provides solidevidence to support his contention that the time has come to turn Texas into five states.
Dr Whisen hunt suggests the question is not "why" but "why not?"
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A piper of paradox -- It was barefooted kind of life -- The boy senator -- The senator takes a wife -- Sally Rand and W. Lee O'Daniel -- Instant war -- How to use power -- "We're fixin' to inaugurate a governor" -- "A term of my own" -- Land : it's what Texas is made up of -- Shivers' lieutenants -- Gas, gasoline and roads -- The piper plays -- Teachers' pets and more roads -- But there aren't any keys! -- The lobby takes a tax plan -- The mean one...
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"In 1940 there were virtually no Mexican American elected officials in Texas at any level of government. By the turn of the century that was no longer true. In fact, Mexican Americans in Texas had effectively reached parity with their white counterparts in elected office. This book tells the story of this dramatic transition in Texas politics and seeks to explain it utilizing original archival research, hours of interviews with leading figures, and...
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Considering the importance which Latinos will have on American culture and politics in the 21st century, very little of a nonscholarly nature has been written about them. Rogers fills the gap somewhat with this journalistic biography of Ernesto Cortes,a grass-roots leader who teaches Latinos how to use the political system. A man who combines religion and secular ideology, Cortes is doing for the Latino communities nationally what Jesse Jackson did...
19) Barn burning barn building: tales of a political life from LBJ through George W. Bush and beyond
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How did the Democratic Party--party of JFK, LBJ, and civil rights--fall from glory? How did Texas become Bush territory? What do politicians on either side need to do today to get our country back on track? Ben Barnes has the answers. Barnes had a front-row seat through it all. He won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1960, at the age of 22, and four years later became the youngest Speaker of the House since the Civil War. In 1968, he helped Congressman...
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