God Save Texas
A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 5, 2019
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written….
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, lightly comic guide to Texas that reads like a conversation with a smart companion.
- Genres
- Southwest U.S. History, State & Provincial Government, West South Central Travel (AR, LA, OK, TX)
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March 5, 2019
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Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR The inspiration for the HBO Original documentary trilogy God Save Texas streaming on Max Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
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A sharp, lightly comic guide to Texas that reads like a conversation with a smart companion.
Come here for
- Texas as lived-in terrain
- Playful, reflective travel writing
Expect
- Immersion over itinerary
- A sustained narrative thread
Where it sits
| Southwest U.S. History | 93% |
|---|---|
| West South Central Travel (AR, LA, OK, TX) | 48% |
| State & Provincial Government | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Southwest U.S. History
- State & Provincial Government
- Authors
- Lawrence Wright, Random House Audio
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- March 5, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives