A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a Journey through the most controversial State in America.
He is a longtime resident of Austin, Texas..
He is also a playWright and screenwriter.
His books have received many prizes and honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower (now a series on Hulu).
About the Author: Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of nine previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World, The Looming Tower, Going Clear, Thirteen Days in September, and The Terror Years, and one novel, God\'s Favorite.
Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a State that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become--and shows how the battle for Texas\'s Soul encompasses us all.
Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create.
Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities.
Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports.
It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation.
A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a Journey through the most controversial State in America
