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GOD SAVE TEXAS - LAWRENCE WRIGHT KARTONIERT (TB)

'This is a funny  pointed love letter to Texas  at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre 
The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower  God Save Texas is a
journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a Republican state in the
heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty
years  but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the
largest number of Muslim adherents in the United States). The cities are Democrat and among the
most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king but Texas now leads California in technology
exports and has an economy only somewhat smaller than Australia's.Lawrence Wright has written
an enchanting book about what is often seen as an unenchanting place. Having spent most of his
life there  while remaining deeply aware of its oddities  Wright is as charmed by Texan foibles
and landscapes as he is appalled by its politics and brutality. With its economic model of low
taxes and minimal regulation producing both extraordinary growth and striking income
disparities  Texas  Wright shows  looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to
create.This profound portrait of the state  completed just as Texas battled to rebuild after
the devastating storms of summer 2017  not only reflects the United States back as it is  but
as it was and as it might be. As much the home of Roy Orbison and Willie Nelson as of J.R. 
Ross Perot and the Bush family  as filled with magical scenery as with desolate oil-fields and
strip-malls  Texas is a bellwether  super-sized mass of contradictions: a life-long study.

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