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As Texas goes-- : how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda / Gail Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Gail.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic policy.
- Social policy.
- Texas--Politics and government--1951-.
- Texas.
- Politics and government.
- Texas--Social policy.
- Texas--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2012.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871404077
- 0871404079
- OCLC:
- 755704981
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