
God Save Texas
A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
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Lawrence Wright
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Lawrence Wright
A New York Times Notable Book
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
An NPR Best Book of the Year
God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It 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 reveals how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
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Critic reviews
"Superb.... [Wright's] most personal work yet, an elegant mixture of autobiography and long-form journalism, remarkably free of elitist bias on the one hand, and pithy guidebook pronouncements on the other." (David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review)
“A love letter to a place.... Wright writes about Texas with the fervor, knowledge, and ambivalence that comes from deep-seated familiarity.” (Willard Spiegelman, The Wall Street Journal)
“After tackling 9/11 and Scientology, journalist Lawrence Wright wrangles his toughest subject yet: home, the Lone Star State. With a balance of deep reporting and memoir, the New Yorker staff writer offers a personal history of Texas, a place both singular and the bellwether of American politics and morality. It’s a different approach, and one that Wright nails.” (GQ)
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This book starts out great. When he's talking about the history and stories of Texas, Wright's writing is awesome.
Unfortunately, he then gets into politics. Lawrence Wright may have been friends with the Bush family for years, but he's a Texas liberal, which means once he starts talking politics his righteous indignation just won't let him shut up. He knows better, and like most liberals, he just can't stop telling you so!
Texas is a solid republican state, and has been for years. Lawrence Wright hates that fact and he's got a thousand bad things to say about republicans. Blah, blah, blah. After awhile he starts to sound like the teacher on Charlie Brown.
This book could've been great!
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Short stories, not a novel
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eye opening view of texas
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Loved the book
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A Liberal Explains Texas
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Interesting Book
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A great read on a great state
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I was born and raised here, yet this book greatly expanded my understanding of my home state and, indeed, of my own psyche.
Wright brings forth an oft overlooked dimension of Texas life, culture and politics which is greatly misunderstood. Why? Because so many charlatans (especially of the political variety) are permitted to perpetuate the old stereotypes. God willing, we will some day rise above them on the wings of patron saints like Larry Wright.
Texas forever!
Tried and true Texas
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As usual, great
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More memoir than anything
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