![]() But I have been devouring the Trib app as if I were reading a box score in early August. ![]() “Why write fiction,” the Texas reporter Molly Ivins used to say, “when you can cover the Texas Legislature.” How badly am I smitten? The other day, the Texas Tribune released its Lawmaker Explorer app that is a guide to the financial interests of state lawmakers. It's like a renewal of a love affair, my lover affair, with the statewide political world of Texas. As an expatriate Texan, I have found reading Caro's biography of Johnson - bighearted, insecure, domineering, strategically brilliant, and petty as LBJ was - to be like having a reunion with all that is great and worrisome about my homeland. ![]() I have anticipated every book by Robert Caro about Lyndon Baines Johnson as if I were waiting for a long lost friend, a wayward brother, and an absent child, all rolled into one, to come home. ![]() Today in our series, NBCC board membe r David Biespiel of fers an appreciation of biography finalist The Passage of Power (Knopf) by Robert A. ![]() In the weeks leading up to the February 28 announcement of the 2012 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights the thirty finalists. ![]()
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