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Author:
Hobby, Bill, 1932- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010163255
Title:
How things really work : lessons from a life in politics / by Bill Hobby ; with Saralee Tiede.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryUniversity of Texas at Austin,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xxiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Hobby, Bill,--1932-
Lieutenant governors--Texas--20th century--Biography.
Texas--Politics and government--1951-
Biographies.
Other Authors:
Tiede, Saralee. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93030138
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Ancestors -- Will Hobby -- Oveta Culp Hobby -- School days -- In the Navy -- Remembering LBJ -- Newspaper days -- Running for Lieutenant Governor and other political stories -- How the Texas Senate works -- The Constitution of 1876 : still standing despite my best efforts -- Kinder, gentler days -- Artesia Hall -- Déjà vu all over again -- No pass, no play -- The capitol makeover -- From third world to world power : a state in transition -- The privatization of public higher education -- Boom and bust -- The dreaded two-thirds rule and the killer bees -- Family feuds -- Texas prisons and the war on drugs -- The poor we always have with us -- The legislative redistricting board -- Ten years in academia -- The Commission on a Representative Student Body -- The census -- The National Rifle Association -- The Hobby-Eberly telescope -- Hobby for president -- Just vote for no -- Parting thoughts.
ISBN:
9780976669746
0976669749
OCLC:
(OCoLC)643512497
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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