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Made In Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics
Made In Texas George W Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics Author:Michael Lind A scathing expose of the political and cultural legacy of Texas, which tells us all we need to know--and fear--about George W. Bush. — Everyone knows that President George W. Bush is from Texas. But few of us know the role his home state plays in his presidency, and our country. In this vivid dual biography of man and state, Michael Lind confront... more »s the signal crises facing Bush--the economy, the Middle East, and religious fundamentalism--and traces their roots back to Texas, a state, Lind argues, that yields salient clues to the future course of our country.
Widely praised as an iconoclastic and brilliant political observer, Lind, a fifth-generation Texan, chronicles the unique ethnic clash that produced modern Texas, the well-known plundering of the state's natural resources at the hands of the elites, and finally the deep strain of "Old Testament religiosity" which, having originated in Texas, now reaches all over the globe in the form of Bush's foreign policy.
Lind delves deep into the president's home state, and his record in office, provoking us to consider the history of the state of Texas as a kind of morality tale for the political and cultural legacy of Bush's presidency. In the tradition of Gary Wills's Reagan's America, Made In Texas will provide both authoritative biography and wholly original cultural history which will change the way we understand not just our president, but our country.« less