God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

by Lawrence Wright
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

by Lawrence Wright

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Overview

A New York Times Notable Book

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist


An NPR Best Book of the Year

God Save Texas
is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create.

Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780525520108
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/17/2018
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 520,009
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the best-selling author of the novel, The End of October, and ten books of nonfiction, including Going Clear, God Save Texas, and The Looming Tower, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.

Hometown:

Austin, Texas

Date of Birth:

August 2, 1947

Place of Birth:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Education:

B.A., Tulane University, 1969; M.A. (Applied Linguistics), American University in Cairo, 1971

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Table of Contents

1 The Charms, Such as They Are 3

2 A Tale of Three Wells 27

3 Houston, We Have a Problem 55

4 Culture, Explained 89

5 The Cradle of Presidents 113

6 Turn the Radio On 139

7 Big D 167

8 Sausage Makers 189

9 The City of the Violet Crown 237

10 More Sausage 255

11 Borderlands 285

12 The High Lonesome 303

13 Far West, Far Out 319

14 Among the Confederates 343

Acknowledgments 347

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