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junderscoreb 's review for:
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America
by Lawrence Wright
This was more of a memoir than I realized it would be. But Wright was also much more engaged in Texas culture than I had realized. The bushes, Alex jones, Rick Perry, and various other Texans show up as characters from Wright’s social life. Matthew maconahey was living on Wright’s block when he got arrested for playing the bongos naked! (I came away from this books telling of that story feeling far more sympathetic to maconahey’s side of things...)
this book was a bit uneven, but I enjoyed it. Chapters on oil and Dallas were great. The literature chapter not as much. The main shortcoming as a portrait of Texas is that the nonwhite Texas largely exists as something on the horizon that will change the state, rather than as a set of characters in the book who get to tell their own stories directly.
this book was a bit uneven, but I enjoyed it. Chapters on oil and Dallas were great. The literature chapter not as much. The main shortcoming as a portrait of Texas is that the nonwhite Texas largely exists as something on the horizon that will change the state, rather than as a set of characters in the book who get to tell their own stories directly.