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As Texas Goes

How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda
Collins, Gail (Book - - 2012)
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As Texas Goes


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WW Norton
In one of the most explosive and timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that "what happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas anymore."

Baker & Taylor
A best-selling author and New York Times columnist discusses the conservative political agenda … More »
WW Norton
In one of the most explosive and timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that "what happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas anymore."

Baker & Taylor
A best-selling author and New York Times columnist discusses the conservative political agenda that began in Texas, home of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Rick Perry, and how it became a national movement with far-reaching social and economic consequences. 100,000 first printing.

Norton Pub

In one of the most explosive and timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that "what happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas anymore."


Not until she visited Texas,that proud state of big oil and bigger ambitions, did Gail Collins, thebest-selling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most inAmerica’s political landscape. Raised in Ohio, Collins had previously seen theAmerican fundamental divide as a war between the Republican heartland and itstwo liberal coasts. But the real story, she came to see, was in Texas, whereBush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry had created a conservative political agendathat is now sweeping the country and defining our national identity. Throughits vigorous support of banking deregulation, lax environmental standards, anddraconian tax cuts, through its fierce championing of states rights, gunownership, and, of course, sexual abstinence, Texas, with Governor Rick Perry’spresidential ambitions, has become the bellwether of a far-reaching nationalmovement that continues to have profound social and economic consequences forus all. Like it or not, as Texas goes, so goes the nation.

Baker
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Discusses the conservative political agenda that began in Texas and how it became a national movement with far-reaching social and economic consequences.

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Imprint: New York - Liveright Pub Corp
Pages: 267
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN: 9780871404077, 0871404079
Language: English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
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, part II -- The other side of the coin -- We've seen the future, and it's Texas
Statement of responsibility: Gail Collins
Characteristics: 267 p. ;,25 cm.
Author (Original Script): Collins, Gail
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Please secede -- goodbye

Oct 01, 2012
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  • bbb1771 rated this: 4 stars out of 5.

Deeply disturbing insights into how Texas' disregard for the poor, the enviroment or the investments in education and training made by fellow Americians in other states is setting and defining the national agenda.

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