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...some truckstop music, too as well as some stuff that's plain weird like that book on Charlie Manson Whether he's going to read or sing or variations isn't clear yet. Danny Kaib lead guitarist from the Blues Project the one that spawned Al Kooper and Steve Katz, also appears...
...unthinkable. Most college academics thought of themselves as intellectuals whose interests could hardly be equated with those of organized labor-or even with such lower-level colleagues as public-school teachers. All that has changed across the country as enrollments stagnated, money became tight and jobs scarce. Explains Ellis Katz, a political scientist and a leading union organizer at Temple: "There is a growing sense of alienation and frustration here and elsewhere, a feeling that we're up against a period of anti-intellectualism where we'll need to stand united...
...Katz devotes two full chapters to Barnes. "Ben Barnes: The One and Only" and "Ben Barnes: The Two of Him," showing how the latest version of the Lyndon Johnson success story made his way up in politics after coming from a small West Texas farm town...
...KATZ DIGRESSES from the Sharp scandal itself to present it as merely one fortuitously discovered incident of a corruption that permeates and is perpetuated by the entire system of state government in Texas. He discusses the House pledge card system through which the Speaker guarantees the allegiance of House members, documents the use of water districts by land developers in cooperation with state officials to swindle tax dollars, and shows the ways in which powerful lobbyists and House leaders compose the legislative calendar without consulting the rest of the House members...
...against all of this--and much more--that Farenthold and the Dirty Thirty had to take their stand. Katz analogizes them to the 200 men at the Alamo who held off ten thousand of Santa Anna's crack troops for over ten days. It is an apt metaphor, at least for those who view the mission's defenders as heroes, for in their defeat Farenthold and her comrades at least made the first significant attempt at reforming Texas politics in several decades...