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The Republican Party of Texas : a political history /

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The Republican Party has dominated Texas politics in recent decades, but for a long time after Reconstruction ended the Texas GOP was little more than a vehicle for federal patronage (i.e., getting appointed to a Washington job as a reward for serving the party in a Republican backwater like Texas)....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thorburn, Wayne J. (Wayne Jacob), 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
Subjects:
Republican Party (Tex.) > History.
Texas > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Nineteenth-century republicanism
  • The early-twentieth-century Republicans
  • Creager and Wurzbach: the patronage wars
  • From Roosevelt to Truman
  • The Eisenhower years
  • The 1960s breakthrough
  • After Goldwater
  • The highs and lows of the 1970s
  • Breaking the glass ceiling
  • The Reagan-Bush years
  • George W. Bush and the Republican majority
  • The year that changed Texas politics
  • Bush 43 and Governor Perry
  • The Bush Era transitions
  • Donald Trump and the Republican future.