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The Republican Party of Texas : a political history /

"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 T...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thorburn, Wayne J. (Wayne Jacob), 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.