God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
God Save Texas won the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist designation and was the inspiration for the HBO Original documentary trilogy God Save Texas streaming on Max. Texas 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN-13
- 9780525520115
- Genre
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Topics
- Texas politics and cultureAmerican identityRegional history
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2018)
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