Isbn: 9780871404077 - as texas goes...: how the lone star state hijacked the american agenda (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 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.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 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.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. [8], 267, [13] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Appendix: Texas on the Brink. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. 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, the best-selling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most in America's political landscape. Collins had previously seen the American fundamental divide as a war between the Republican heartland and its two liberal coasts. But the real story, she came to see, was in Texas, where Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry had created a conservative political agenda that is now defining our national identity. Through its vigorous support of banking deregulation and tax cuts, through its championing of states rights, gun ownership, and sexual abstinence, Texas, with Governor Rick Perry's presidential ambitions, has become the bellwether of a national movement that continues to have social and economic consequences. Like it or not, as Texas goes, so goes the nation. Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945) is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author. Joining the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor from 2001 to 2007 and was the first woman to attain that position. Collins writes a semi-weekly op-ed column for the Times from her liberal perspective, published Thursdays and Saturdays. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: The outsized influence of the union's largest state is decried in this by turns amused and appalled study of Texas's government and its discontents. New York Times columnist Collins revels in the state's 10-gallon self-regard, Alamo-inspired cult of last stands, and right-wing politicians. But the upshot of all that, she argues, is a disastrous model of public policy that inspired the Republican Party's national platform: a rickety economic boom based on insecure, poverty-level jobs and massive state incentives to corporations; financial deregulation that led to banking meltdowns; a raft of ill-advised education nostrums, from the prototype of the No Child Left Behind Act to abstinence-only sex-education programs; skimpy public services, high rates of poverty and inequality, and low rates of health coverage and graduation. Collins's book is really an indictment of what she calls America's "empty-places" creedâ"the rural conservative populism that favors small government, low taxes, and lax regulationâ"through a takedown of its colorful epicenter. Much like the late Texas dissident Molly Ivins, she slathers plenty of wry humor onto a critique that stings like a red-hot brand. Derived from a Kirkus review: New York Times political columnist Collins zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what's happening there. Texans, writes the author, think they live in a wide-open empty space where carrying a concealed weapon is acceptable because people have to take care of themselves and the government has no business telling them what to do. In her inimitable style, the unabashed liberal examines the shenanigans of Texans from four angles: first, a hilarious look at some of Texas' past heroes and present politicicians and at how the empty-space ethos has shaped the state's policies; second, a close-up examination of several areas where she says the state has gone sadly wrong (its deregulation of financial markets, attempts at reforming education, and major missteps on sex education, energy, the environment, pollution and global climate change); third, a scathing report on the two-tiered, low-tax, low-service economy of the state; and finally, Collins' take on where Texas, soon to be a Hispanic-majority state, is heading. The author loads her report with funny but dismaying ane. Earl Wilson (Author photograph) (illustrator).…