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In one of the most explosive and timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that "what happens in Texas doesn't stay in Texas anymore."
Not until she visited Texas, that proud state of big oil and bigger ambitions, did Gail Collins, the best-selling author and columnist for the New York Times, realize that she had missed the one place that mattered most in America’s political landscape. Raised in Ohio, Collins had previously seen the American fundamental divide as a war between the Republican heartland and its two liberal coasts. But the real story, she came to see, was in Texas, where Bush, Cheney, Rove, & Perry had created a conservative political agenda that is now sweeping the country and defining our national identity. Through its vigorous support of banking deregulation, lax environmental standards, and draconian tax cuts, through its fierce championing of states rights, gun ownership, and, of course, sexual abstinence, Texas, with Governor Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions, has become the bellwether of a far-reaching national movement that continues to have profound social and economic consequences for us all. Like it or not, as Texas goes, so goes the nation.- Sales Rank: #860193 in Books
- Published on: 2012-06-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.00" w x 6.60" l, 1.20 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review
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)
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)
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)
Gail Collins is the funniest serious political commentator in America. Reading As Texas Goes… is pure pleasure from page one. (Rachel Maddow)
There's no funnier writer about politics than Gail Collins, and in Texas, she's found the perfect canvas. The state's record at producing some of the nuttiest characters ever to enter American public life is matched only by its recent prowess in infecting the other 49 states with those politicians' most crackpot policy ideas. Collins serves up hilarity and horror in equal measure and leaves you rooting for Rick Perry to make good on his threat to lead Texas out of the Union. (Frank Rich)
New York Times columnist Collins revels in the state's 10-gallon self-regard, Alamo-inspired cult of suicidal last stands, and eccentric right-wing pols... Much like the late Texas dissident Molly Ivins, she slathers plenty of wry humor onto a critique that stings like a red-hot brand. (Publishers Weekly)
Starred review. New York Times 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)
[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 The Times. (Lloyd Grove - New York Times Book Review)
New York Times columnist Gail Collins makes a compelling case in As Texas Goes... that much of what ails the nation began down in the Lone Star State… her larger thesis has a chilling ring of truth. Texas represents a kind of dark bellwether for the rest of the country: a two-tiered society in which the affluent rig the system in their favor while a vast underclass struggles to pay for basic services such as medical care. (Steve Almond - Boston Globe)
Collins lays out a convincing case that many of the nation’s more misguided―sometimes outright wacky―policies originated in Texas, ranging from public education to environmental regulation to teaching kids about sex… Worth a read. (Deborah Yetter - Louisville Courier-Journal)
About the Author
Gail Collins, the best-selling author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, is a national columnist for the New York Times. She lives in New York City.
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104 of 136 people found the following review helpful.
A DETAILED, AMUSING, SOBERING ASSESSMENT OF TEXAS & ITS NATIONAL INFLUENCE
By RBSProds
"We feel Texas' influence in our lives every day..." Gail Collins
Four and a half OVERALL Stars! (On my second pass through, this excellent book gains one star!) Texas has "way more influence than one-fiftieth of the union deserves" asserts author Gail Collins. She began to pay more attention to the large influence of the Lone Star State in 2009 when the star-crossed presidential hopeful Governor Rick Perry became a political lightning rod throwing around the word "secession" at times. Looking deeper into the matter she now sees Texas as a more highly-influential state than she originally suspected across a number of political and social fronts, but not without its own unique and sometimes self-inflicted problems which she documents in this sometimes humorous, fact-laden book. She is amazed at how we make things 'bigger' in Texas, starting with the state capitol building, and how politicians from Texas are in the front rank of influence on the national legislative and presidential matters, reminding us that a (non-native born) Texan has been President or Vice President 20 of the last 32 years in the person of Bush 41 and 43. She keys in on two cities to explain the "empty place" ethos: Houston, a city that "goes on forever", with no zoning, as a prime example of 'crowded places with empty spaces in between' (and beyond the city limits), where an 'empty spaces' less-government attitude prevails. And Midland, a struggling city on the upswing, that has had its ups and downs riding the prevailing trends for survival. She also sprinkles in words like "passle" and "bidness" (I know no one who talks like that in my 'deep in the heart of Texas' city except TV car dealers). I feel there are tens of millions of city dwellers in Texas who do not have the 'empty-spaces, less-government' attitude, in my humble opinion; if anything we'd like a little more in targeted areas, if you please, but it's easy to see how an outsider (assisted by a few Texan advisors) can get that impression, based on leadership at the state and national level who definitely feel that way.
As a Texan, transplanted here 4 decades ago, I knew she was not going to get the totality of Texas right. She would have to live here for decades and travel all over this picturesque, very complicated, conflicted, politically-charged, very historical, and ultimately for me, enjoyable state. It is simply TOO BIG and a state this big will have big problems. But she has gotten a lot totally right and dug up a 'passle' of very interesting history, facts, colorful personages, and scandal and put it in ONE very engaging book, which starts out informative and humorous and then goes darkly humorous with political and business shenanigans, factoids, and problems. And while some is positive, much is not, thanks (or no thanks) to our politicians, businessmen, and self-serving idiosyncratic polices. Along the wide swath in the book we meet: the "central triangle" of east and central Texas where 60% of the population resides with lots of "empty places" and the questionable "less-government" leadership attitude; states' rights; the reason for the shift from the Democratic to Republican legislative majority; the Texas way of producing jobs; the Enterprise Fund and business growth; Texas' influence on abstinence, sex-education, and "No Child Left Behind"; Enron, regulation and deregulation; where Rick Perry and Phil Gramm started politically; the way Texas, "the largest emitter of carbon dioxide", deals with global warming; Texas tort policy; schools, education, and textbooks; the coming 'majority-Hispanic' Texas; the influence on the Tea Party, and much more including, the quirky 'atheist-prohibition against holding public office' (that was news to me). We, in Texas, know the good far outweighs the bad. Our national influence, proven by this book, good, bad, or in-between: shows "the good" is also drawing in new residents by the millions to our 'state tax free' state (adding four more seats in the House of Representatives) as well as millions of tourists. But not all facts are correct in the book: (e.g. "only elected one Latino to statewide office"? Wrong! I know of at least 5 on the state level and 2 on the national level.) On the positive side, yes, Texas is a definite leader: a huge oil and refinery source, huge natural gas source, second largest economy among the states, largest exporter, and a $100 billion dollar grossing state. Even so, this book is Highly Recommended as an impressive collage of Texas history, customs, personages, influence, concepts, and problems on the state and national level. In the end, author Gail Collins feels wherever Texas is headed, it's taking the rest of the country with it. An outsider's view of the influence of Texas, and do read the national ranking tables in the Appendix closely: "Texas on the Brink: The Texas Legislative Study on the State of Our State". HIghly Recommended. Four and a half ENGROSSING Stars! (Reviewed as a Kindle download of 288 pages ~594 KB in text and text-to-speech modes. Gail Collins is also the author of William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President,1841)
23 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
An Outsider's Look At Texas
By Samuel J. Sharp
"As Texas Goes" is a full-throated critique of Texas state policy and the ills it exports to the rest of America. Collins devotes the book to arguing that no matter how good Texas may look to outsiders (e.g. low unemployment, low cost of living, no income tax), it is a actually a blot on the union that parasitically steals other states' companies and college graduates, while foisting upon the country pollution, censored textbooks, and loony Republican politicians.
Collins' argument is easy to follow, if not always convincing. Collins blames Texas for, among other things, the Savings & Loan Crisis, No Child Left Behind, and presidents who "have led the country into every land war . . . since Vietnam." Often, she seems to work backwards; first announcing a conclusion, then presenting one-sided evidence with sarcasm and stale rhetoric. Other times, she abandons even the pretense of serious analysis. For example on page 151, when discussing Texas's pro-business policy, she states, "Perhaps Texas has the recipe for growing the national economy. Great! On the other hand, maybe job growth is mainly due to accidents of the state's location, and the competition is just a way to blackmail other states into bankrupting themselves for no good reason whatsoever expect corporate greed. Of course, the truth could lie somewhere in the middle . . . but for the moment, I'm going with the blackmail-and-bankrupt scenario." This is not how a serious author would write on a complex subject.
This is a short book, but Collins packs in a lot of material and a lot of unoriginal, generalized observations. On page 165 she runs through a familiar "you didn't build that" argument by noting how the federal government funds the interstate highway system, crop subsidies, military bases, and "massive tax credits" for oil production. These policies of course are not unique to Texas, but no matter. Collins wryly concludes this riff by highlighting Texas's lack of gratitude for federal largesse. "Not looking for thanks, really. Or maybe just a little."
In short, if you read Collins in the New York Times and enjoy her writing, you will probably like this book very much. Readers wanting a more thoughtful treatment should look elsewhere. I would have learned much more about Texas from a more open-minded author who is more familiar with the state. Collins admits to being fascinated by Texas's peculiarities, and this shallow curiosity mixed with her obvious scorn makes her a less than trustworthy guide to a state and its people.
15 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Cheap shot
By Masonville
Full disclosure: I'm a Northern liberal and I despise what I know of Texas. That said, this book isn't the place to go for a careful analysis of Texas and/or its (putative) impact on the nation. Certainly the Board of Education impact on textbooks is accurate, I'll give her that. But apart from that, this is just a series of cheap shots written in a hokey-jokey style that I found extremely irritating. Texas may be an extreme example of libertarian excess, but that tendency has been broadly characteristic of much of the US since the late 18th century. I just found this book to be embarrassingly shallow ("embarrassingly" because I'd like to have seen a good analysis of what's wrong with Texas). At the end I had a visceral sensation of having eaten too much cheap candy.
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