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Author Collins, Gail.

Title As Texas goes-- : how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda / Gail Collins.

Imprint New York : Liveright Pub. Corporation, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.6 C693as 2012    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 267 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index.
Contents 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 -- Speedy 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Texas -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Texas -- Social policy.
Texas -- Economic policy.
ISBN 9780871404077 (alk. paper)
0871404079 (alk. paper)

 
    
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