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As Texas goes-- : how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda / Gail Collins.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0871404079
- ISBN: 9780871404077 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Pub. Corporation, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Remember the Alamo -- Empty places -- It's my party -- Financial deregulation; the Texas angle -- No child left behind -- The business of schools -- The textbook wars -- Seedy the sperm and friends -- Cooling to global warming -- The Texas miracle -- The other side of the coin -- We've seen the future, and it's Texas. |
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| Subject: | Texas > Politics and government > 1951- Texas > Social policy. Texas > Economic policy. |
