Biscuits, the dole, and nodding donkeys : Texas politics, 1929-1932 /
When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibitio...
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Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2019
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Edition: | First edition |
Series: | Focus on American history series
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Table of Contents:
- Tom Cat lands on his feet
- Daniel in the legislative lions' den
- A Sterling victory
- The Sterling years
- Texas again tangled in Ma's apron strings
- Garnering votes for Cactus Jack
- Roosevelt and Garner
- The politics of relief and repeal
- Epilogue. "Pass the biscuits, Pappy!"