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 Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, which picks up just as the Democratic Party was poised for a bruising fight in the 1930 primary. Charting the governorships of Dan Moody, Ross Sterling, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson in her second term, and James V. Allred, this engrossing sequel takes its title from the notion that Texas politicians should give voters what they want (“When you cease to deliver the biscuits they will not be for you any longer,” said Jim “Pa” Ferguson) while remaining wary of federal assistance (the dole) in a state where the economy is fueled by oil pump jacks (nodding donkeys). Taking readers to an era when a self-serving group of Texas politicians operated in a system that was closed to anyone outside the state’s white, wealthy echelons, Brown unearths a riveting, little-known history whose impact continues to ripple at the capitol.
"This comprehensive volume may be considered the definitive study of Texas politics during the twenties. As the title suggests, the three main issues in the Lone Star State during that...
Hickman and fellow constable N. M. Burch were compelled to visit the saloons and corral rowdy drunks. In 1912, he was hired as a deputy by Sheriff Louis Bringham. Five years later, Bringham chose to not seek another term, ...
Quarles, the Post's fiery legislative reporter; columnist Marcellus E. Foster, whose pen name was “MEFO”; and columnist William Sydney Porter. Editor Rienzi Johnston hired Porter in October 1895, five months after Will went to work at ...
In this volume, the renowned linguist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over some 300 Dutch loan words that travelled to the New World between the 17th and the 20th century.
This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, and soon joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party.
The city of Sherman, the seat of Grayson County in North Texas, prided itself on being a center of culture, and its courthouse, built in 1859, was the pride of Sherman.1 On May 9, 1930, a black man, George Hughes, was in the courthouse ...
After the Scottsboro story broke on March 25, 1931, it was open season for old-fashioned lynchings, legal (courtroom) lynchings, and mob murder.
While numerous biographies on Woody Guthrie exist--including Guthrie's own 1943 autobiography--this book takes a different approach.
One of the most beloved novels of all time, Colleen McCullough's magnificent saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian outback has enthralled readers the world over.
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