As I said earlier,
am really enjoying 'Friday Night Lights', though it isn't what I 
expected. True, it's about Texas football, but it's more about Texas lifestyle and politics, esp around Odessa and Midland, home of the Bush clan. It's got some nice insights, starting with the myth of Ronald Reagan, the Repub hero. They consider him a saint, with great family values, but he never went to church, and his family hated him. They think he's a war hero, but the closest he came to war was the movies. AND, they cite him as a cost-cutter, but he tripled the national debt during his tenure. They overlook the Alzheimer's that was so obvious while he was still in office, cuz it didn't really change him much. After reading the book, you can better understand the Texas mentality that makes them think they are some kinda genius/heroes cuz they reside on a hot, barren wasteland that happens to have oil under it. Some great insights into the boom/bust Texas oil economy, and the hucksters and uneducated masses that rose and fell with it.
expected. True, it's about Texas football, but it's more about Texas lifestyle and politics, esp around Odessa and Midland, home of the Bush clan. It's got some nice insights, starting with the myth of Ronald Reagan, the Repub hero. They consider him a saint, with great family values, but he never went to church, and his family hated him. They think he's a war hero, but the closest he came to war was the movies. AND, they cite him as a cost-cutter, but he tripled the national debt during his tenure. They overlook the Alzheimer's that was so obvious while he was still in office, cuz it didn't really change him much. After reading the book, you can better understand the Texas mentality that makes them think they are some kinda genius/heroes cuz they reside on a hot, barren wasteland that happens to have oil under it. Some great insights into the boom/bust Texas oil economy, and the hucksters and uneducated masses that rose and fell with it.
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