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As Texas goes-- how the Lone Star State hijacked the American agenda by Gail Collins

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Published by Liveright Pub. Corporation in New York .
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Subjects:

  • Politics and government,
  • Economic policy,
  • Social policy

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

StatementGail Collins
Classifications
LC ClassificationsJK4816 .C67 2012
The Physical Object
Paginationp. cm.
ID Numbers
Open LibraryOL25247028M
ISBN 109780871404077
LC Control Number2012007794

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