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When Ann Richards delivered the keynote of the 1988 Democratic National Convention and mocked President George H. W. Bush—“Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth”—she instantly became a media celebrity and triggered a rivalry that would alter the course of American history. In 1990, Richards won the governorship of Texas, upsetting the GOP’s colorful rancher and oilman Clayton Williams. The first ardent feminist elected to high office in America, she opened up public service to women, blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, gays, and the disabled. Her progressive achievements and the force of her personality created a lasting legacy that far transcends her rise and fall as governor of Texas. In Let the People In, Jan Reid draws on his long friendship with Richards, interviews with her family and many of her closest associates, her unpublished correspondence with longtime companion Bud Shrake, and extensive research to tell a very personal, human story of Ann Richards’s remarkable rise to power as a liberal Democrat in a conservative Republican state. Reid traces the whole arc of Richards’s life, beginning with her youth in Waco, her marriage to attorney David Richards, her frustration and boredom with being a young housewife and mother in Dallas, and her shocking encounters with Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. He follows Richards to Austin and the wild 1970s scene and describes her painful but successful struggle against alcoholism. He tells the full, inside story of Richards’s rise from county office and the state treasurer’s office to the governorship, where she championed gun control, prison reform, environmental protection, and school finance reform, and he explains why she lost her reelection bid to George W. Bush, which evened his family’s score and launched him toward the presidency. Reid describes Richards’s final years as a world traveler, lobbyist, public speaker, and mentor and inspiration to office holders, including Hillary Clinton. His nuanced portrait reveals a complex woman who battled her own frailties and a good-old-boy establishment to claim a place on the national political stage and prove “what can happen in government if we simply open the doors and let the people in.”
Governors --- Politicians --- Richards, Ann, --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Texas --- Politics and government --- Richards, Dorothy Ann, --- Willis, Ann, --- Willis, Dorothy Ann, --- Demokratische Partei (U.S.) --- Partai Demokrat (U.S.) --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828)
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Susan Dunn tells the dramatic story of FDR’s unprecedented battle to drive his foes out of his party by intervening in Democratic primaries and backing liberal challengers to conservative incumbents.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. --- Ruzvelʹt, Franklin, --- Rūzvilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Rūzfilt, Franklin Dilānū, --- Lo-ssu-fu, --- Luosifu, --- F. D. R. --- R., F. D. --- FDR --- רוזוועלט, פראנקלין ד. --- רוזוועלט, --- Roosevelt, F. --- Roosevelt, F. D. --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828) --- Demokratische Partei (U.S.) --- Partai Demokrat (U.S.) --- History --- United States --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.
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What drove the transformation of post-World War II politics in the South? In The Rational Southerner, M. V. Hood, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris develop a theory of relative advantage to explain why whites fled the Democratic Party and what propelled black political mobilization. Collating decades of data, the authors demonstrate that race was, and is, the chief force behind political change in the region.
Political culture --- African Americans --- Racism --- Party affiliation --- Politics and government. --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Democratic Party (U.S.) --- Southern States --- Race relations. --- Culture --- Political science --- Affiliation, Party --- Political affiliation --- Political parties --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Membership --- Demokratische Partei (U.S.) --- Partai Demokrat (U.S.) --- Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828) --- GOP (Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )) --- Grand Old Party --- National Union Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- National Union Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Republican Party --- Republicans (Political party : U.S. : 1854- ) --- Respublikanskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ SShA (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Union Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Union Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) --- Black people
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