Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics

by J Brooks Flippen and J. Brooks Flippen

Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019

Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century--energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477315144
• ISBN13: 9781477315149
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"