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Speaker Jim Wright: Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics
By Flippen, J. Brooks
- ISBN
- 9781477315149 9781477316320
- Publisher
- Univ. of Texas
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Reviewed on April 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
Jim Wright (1922–2015) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1954 to 1989 and was Speaker of the House for his final two years until charges of lobbying improprieties and an explosion of cutthroat politics forced him to resign. Here, Flippen (history, Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ.; Nixon and the Environment) offers an exhaustive biography that reveals Wright as a Texas go-getter in the mold of mentor President Lyndon B. Johnson. Accor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
