https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292708310/

Another Texas politics book I've read recently is Billy Lee Brammer -- The Gay Place.

Three linked novels set in the Texas of the fifties, the political landscape being dominated by an LBJish governor. Political ambition, idealism , and skullduggery mixed with romance, reflections on the spiritual emptiness of post war prosperity, and a hell of a lot of hard drinking. The depiction of women in the novels will prompt all but the most reactionary readers to understand both the appeal and necessity of second wave feminism in the US.

A good work which does not quite attain greatness on account of moments of narrative shapelessness and passages of half baked philosophy.

Definitely worth reading if you are interested in politics and Texas.

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