"This comprehensive volume may be considered the definitive study of Texas politics during the twenties. As the title suggests, the three main issues in the Lone Star State during that decade were prohibition, the Klan, and women; or more accurately, a woman, in politics. All were intertwined in a swirl of frenetic activity which leaves the observer breathless from his effort to unsort and understand it. Professor Brown has done a massive and masterful job of research in his attempt to explain these complex ...
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"This comprehensive volume may be considered the definitive study of Texas politics during the twenties. As the title suggests, the three main issues in the Lone Star State during that decade were prohibition, the Klan, and women; or more accurately, a woman, in politics. All were intertwined in a swirl of frenetic activity which leaves the observer breathless from his effort to unsort and understand it. Professor Brown has done a massive and masterful job of research in his attempt to explain these complex interrelationships. In his exquisitely detailed account, he successfully relates the issues not only to each other but to national events and demonstrates thereby the importance which events and personalities in Texas bore at the bigger picture during the pre-Depression era. His accounts of the administrations of Governors Pat Neff, Miriam Ferguson, and Dan Moody are the most detailed yet written, and they illustrate well how the personal antogonisms and party factionalisms which characterized Texas politics affected the process of government. His accounts of the antics of Ma and Pa Ferguson and Fergusonism are likewise revealing."-- Journal of the Southwest
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Very good in very good dust jacket. jacket has some wear at corners and edges, surface of jacket a bit worn, flaps faded at edges, inner surface of jacket has numerous small stains; ends of text block faded. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 584 p. Contains: Illustrations. Texas A&m Southwestern Studies, 1. Audience: General/trade.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. 568 pp. Bright, crisp and clean copy with light wear. Brown linen boards with bright gilt type on spine. Dust jacket has light rubbing and top right corner of front panel has snagged tear. Now in protective cover.