Cover of God Save Texas

God Save Texas

by Lawrence Wright · 2018

+ Want to read

"With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny. God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red 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). The cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king but Texas now leads California in technology exports. The Texas economic model of low taxes and minimal regulation has produced extraordinary growth but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. And Wright's profound portrait of the state not only reflects our country back as it is, but as it was and as it might be"—

Subject
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thistraveltravelMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
21st century21st centuryMore like thisLess of thisTexasTexasMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked God Save Texas? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked God Save Texas. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Nine Lives of Pakistan Declan Walsh · 2020 Shares travel, politics, history
  2. Contemporary China Kerry Brown · 2013 Shares politics, government, economic history
  3. The Salem Clique: Oregon's Founding Brothers Barbara S. Mahoney Shares politics, state local, government
  4. The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane Richard Quest · 2016 Shares travel, politics
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (politics), start with these.”

  1. Free onlineFree A diplomat in Japan Ernest Mason Satow · 1921
  2. Free onlineFree Lord Randolph Churchill Winston S. Churchill · 1906
  3. The Boy Who Stayed Cool, and Other Stories of Young People in the Bible Carl F. Burke
  4. New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success Chris Elder · 2013

“If it was the government that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The great withdrawal Craig R. Smith · 2013
  2. Edmund Barton Geoffrey Bolton · 2001
  3. Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales. John Simpson John Cody Fidler-Simpson · 2007
  4. State of resistance Manuel Pastor · 2018

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas Erica Grieder · 2012
  2. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do Andrew Gelman · 2008
  3. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System: The American Stratification System Douglas S. Massey · 2007
  4. Contested transformation Carol Hardy-Fanta · 2016

Report a problem