Illuminating Civic Life in Texas
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Explore the history of Texas through the lives of leading political figures—governors, power brokers, reformers, and rogues. For anyone curious to understand Texas’s political system and evolution, this is a good place to start.
This section is a work in process and more biographies will be added.
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