{"product_id":"as-texas-goes-how-the-lone-star-state-hijacked-the-american-agenda-9780871403605","title":"As Texas Goes How the Lone Star State Hijacked","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gail Collins is the funniest serious political commentator in America. Reading \u003cem\u003eAs Texas Goes…\u003c\/em\u003e is pure pleasure from page one.” —Rachel Maddow \u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The reader who senses a touch of sarcasm would not be wrong…[Collins] has a good eye for absurd details.\" -- Erica Grieder - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no one like Gail Collins: uproarious fun on every page, but with a serious point. In this wonderful book she devastates Texas for its hypocrisy, its ignorance, its worship of wealth. But you cannot keep laughing as she shows how the Texan mind works a baleful influence on the rest of the country.\" -- Anthony Lewis\u003cbr\u003e\"With wit and humor, Collins focuses on major Texas figures, from Davy Crockett to Rick Perry, to offer a portrait of an outsize state anxious to take on the task of setting the rest of the country straight and of the broader implications that has for the rest of the country.\" -- Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\"Starred review. \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e political columnist Collins zeroes in on what makes Texas so important and why the rest of the country needs to know and care about what’s happening there…A timely portrait of Texas delivered with Collins’ unique brand of insightful humor.\" -- Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\"[Collins] set off on a whirlwind tour to discover the Lone Star State and its transcendent meaning, deploying a breezy, wisecracking polemical style familiar to fans (including me) of her twice-­weekly column in \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\" -- Lloyd Grove - New  York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e columnist Gail Collins makes a compelling case in \u003cem\u003eAs Texas Goes…\u003c\/em\u003e that much of what ails the nation began down in the Lone Star State.\" -- Steve Almond - Boston Globe","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528282251607,"sku":"9780871403605","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780871403605.jpg?v=1731871058","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/as-texas-goes-how-the-lone-star-state-hijacked-the-american-agenda-9780871403605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}