Ebook: Big, hot, cheap, and right: what america can learn from the strange genius of texas

Introduction; 1. Man-Made Miracle; 2. The Texas Model; 3. The Troublesome Territory; 4. State of Hate; 5. Land and Cattle; 6. Black Gold; 7. The Ungoverned; 8. The Shadow State; 9. Democratic Texas; 10. The Rise of the Right; 11. Twenty-First-Century Texas; 12. Vestigial Parts; 13. Turning Texas Blue; 14. The Coming Crack-Up; 15. Tweaking of the Model; 16. Texas and the United States; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude. And yet, according to journalist (and Texan) Erica Grieder, the United States has a great deal to learn from Texas. In Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right, Grieder traces the political history of a state that was always larger than life. From its rowdy beginnings, Texas has combined a long-standing suspicion of.