Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of
Texas, America’s Superstate
Robert
Bryce
327 pages, hardcover $26.00. PublicAffairs, 2004

“I’m all for business. I’m all for
government. I just don’t want them to be the same thing,”
says Robert Bryce, taking on the state of Texas and its enormous
political influence over American life, from oil and gas to
business to foreign policy. Bryce traces the network of Texas
“cronies” that he says helped bring Lyndon Johnson and both Bushes
to power in the White House.

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Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas,
America’s Superstate

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April 18, 2005

<h1>Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas,<br /> America’s Superstate</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />April 18, 2005</p> <br /> <!-- RTT removed image (35963) --> <p> <B>Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of<br /> Texas, America’s Superstate</B><BR> Robert<br /> Bryce<BR> 327 pages, hardcover $26.00. PublicAffairs, 2004</p> <p> "I’m all for business. I’m all for<br /> government. I just don’t want them to be the same thing,"<br /> says Robert Bryce, taking on the state of Texas and its enormous<br /> political influence over American life, from oil and gas to<br /> business to foreign policy. Bryce traces the network of Texas<br /> "cronies" that he says helped bring Lyndon Johnson and both Bushes<br /> to power in the White House. </p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=188960">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas,<br /> America's Superstate</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-296/cronies-oil-the-bushes-and-the-rise-of-texasamericas-superstate/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111006&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-296/cronies-oil-the-bushes-and-the-rise-of-texasamericas-superstate/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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