Chapter One Hundred Thirty-One: As Texas Goes

This fairly recent (2012) nonfiction book by Gail Collins is as smart and entertaining as her other nonfiction works that I've read (but not posted about here, it was too long ago) and as her New York Times columns always are.  It provides an interesting look at how politics in Texas have been influencing national politics.  Normally I would be totally bored or depressed by this topic (or both), but Collins makes it both interesting and funny (though with a rather dark undertone).  If you want interesting political nonfiction, read it before it becomes too outdated to be pertinent.