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The Book Case

Lawrence Wright Takes On Texas Politics

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence Wright’s newest novel, Mr. Texas, revolves around Texas politics and how they relate to our national political conversation, and he knows from where he speaks. Not only is he a native Texan, but he has also written one of the definitive NON fiction books about Texas, (God Save Texas). Both books are insightful, prescient, and, this might surprise you, very funny. Mr. Texas is about modern politics, the price of selling your soul, the importance of Texas politics, how to talk to each other, and whether or not one person can make a difference in this world. Our bookstore this week is Werner Books and Coffee in Erie PA. Books mentioned in this week's episode: Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright The End of October by Lawrence Wright The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace by Lawrence Wright The Terror Years: From Al Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright Sheets by Brenna Thummler Lights by Brenna Thummler Delicates by Brenna Thummler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome, welcome, listeners, and happy Thanksgiving to you. I am Kate Gibson. And I'm Charlie Gibson. We hope you are having or have had a very blessed Thanksgiving and had a chance to spend it with family, etc. And we hope you have a chance to spend a few moments with the bookcase with Kate and Charlie. And we've got a good

0:56.0

one today. In some ways, I feel like the book is great for Thanksgiving week. Thanksgiving may have

1:01.3

become what over the last five or six years? Maybe your Thanksgiving table has become a little

1:06.8

bit more fraught. Maybe you're fighting with your Democratic uncle or you're a fiercely

1:12.6

Republican aunt and the table has become more and more divided. Well, this is a great book. This is a

1:18.7

great week to be discussing our book, Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright, which is in some ways about

1:24.3

how people on the political spectrum talk to one another. So we will help you survive

1:28.6

your Uncle Bernie or your Aunt Bernie. So stick with us. Well, this book, first of all,

1:33.8

Lawrence Wright is a keen observer of the state of Texas, really in the tradition, I think,

1:38.7

of Larry McMurtry and Molly Ivans, who wrote so wonderfully about Texas. And Mr. Texas is about Texas politics with all its

1:47.0

absurdities and with all its import. It is important what happens in Texas, as Larry Wright will tell

1:53.7

you, because Texas is growing so markedly. It is now the second most popular state in the country

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