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  • Ralph W. Yarborough, the People's Senator

    by Patrick L. Cox ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    A compelling biography of a Texas senator who was "a defiant, dedicated liberal in the face of conservative Southern politics" ( Publishers Weekly).Revered by many Texans and other Americans as "the People's Senator," Ralph Webster Yarborough fought for "the little people" in a political career that places him in the ranks of the most influential leaders in Texas history. The only U.S. senator ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Texas News Barons

    by Patrick L. Cox ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the groundwork for the enormous economic growth and social changes that followed World War II. Yet their ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Writing the Story of Texas

    Edited by Patrick L. Cox, Kenneth E., Jr. Hendrickson ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation (some would argue creation) of our state’s past. An anthology of biographical essays, Writing the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The House Will Come To Order

    How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics

    by Patrick L. Cox, Michael Phillips ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-handedly dictate the legislative agenda. The House Will Come to Order charts the evolution of the Speaker's role from a relatively obscure office to one of the most powerful in the state. This fascinating account, drawn from the Briscoe Center's oral ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Profiles in Power

    Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, New Edition

    Edited by Michael L. Collins, Patrick L. Cox, Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr. ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    Profiles in Power offers concise biographies of fourteen twentieth-century Texans who wielded significant political power and influence in Washington, D.C. First published in 1993 by Harlan Davidson, it has been revised and updated with new chapters on John Nance Garner and Henry Gonzalez and expanded chapters on Lyndon Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Ralph Yarborough, Jim Wright, and John Tower. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

    by Robert A. Caro ...
    Series Book 3 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years**At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the ... Read more

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  • Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    by Rick Perlstein ...
    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

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  • Give Us the Ballot

    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    by Ari Berman ...
    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2015A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015An NPR Best Book of 2015Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been pai... ... Read more

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  • The Making of the President, 1972

    by Theodore H. White ...
    Series series The Landmark Political Series
    The classic you-are-there account of the Nixon-McGovern election by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times–bestselling author: "A brilliant analysis." — CommentaryThe Making of the President 1972 chronicles both the Democratic and the Republican parties as they jockeyed for position toward the end of Richard M. Nixon's turbulent first term. Theodore White illuminates the cinematic moments that ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Comeback

    How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority

    by Patrick J. Buchanan ...
    Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency.After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians ... Read more

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  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969

    by Charles Peters ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam WarFew figures in American history are as compelling and complex as Lyndon Baines Johnson, who established himself as the master of the U.S. Senate in the 1950s and succeeded John F. Kennedy in the White House after Kennedy's assassination on ... Read more

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  • Gerald R. Ford

    The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977

    by Douglas Brinkley ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisisWhen Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD