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"This book examines how electoral structure, representation styles, and policy outputs affect the urban Mexican American community in Texas. In so doing, it makes a major contribution to the larger study of minority politics in the context of urban electoral and political structures."--BOOK JACKET. "The work combines two rich research traditions: case study analysis and aggregate data analysis. For the case studies, ten Texas cities are examined....
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Carries Johnson from his 19th senate defeat through WWII and on to the securing of his political and economic fortunes.
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President. In Means of Ascent the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer/historian,...
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Examines the issues and strategies involved in successfully running for political office in the United States. Different segments look at how street organizations got out the vote in Chicago, a California gubernatorial candidate on a 29 hour bus-trip photo-op marathon, a consultant crafting a negative ad campaign, a revealing story of changing ethnic coalitions, a look at the wide-open Texas legislature and a portrait of a Texas state senator as he...
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"A comprehensive study of the Parr family's political activities in South Texas, how three generations manipulated the ballot box in Duval County and the surrounding areas through violence and corruption for more than seventy years and critically influenced the course of the nation"--Provided by publisher.
"The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied...
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Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state?s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a variety of voices, including legislators themselves, in addition to lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists, Rotten...
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"This book is based primarily on the recollections of eight of the 12 Texas Killer Bees: Ron Clower, Lloyd Doggett, Glenn Kothman, Raul Longoria, Oscar Mauzy, Carl Parker, Bill Patman and A.R. "Babe" Schwartz. The woman who hid nine of them, Dora McDonald, also contributed her story."--From the preface.
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In 1990 Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein ran the two most conspicuous political campaigns in the country, aiming for governorships in Texas and California. An insider's look at these two races, this book draws on the author's unparalleled access to political advisers, consultants, campaign staff, reporters, and friends.
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In Black Victory, Darlene Clark Hine examines a pivotal breakthrough in the struggle for black liberation through the voting process. She details the steps and players in the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright, a precursor to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She discusses the role that NAACP attorneys such as Thurgood Marshall played in helping black Texans regain the right denied them by white Texans in the Democratic Party: the right...
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