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The Nasty, Brutish, And Shortened Political Life Of Tom Delay
PublicAffairs
January 2006
On Sale: January 9, 2006
Featuring: Tom Delay
304 pages
ISBN: 1586484079
EAN: 9781586484071
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Non-Fiction Biography
With The Hammer, Lou Dubose and Jan Reid track the
rise of Tom DeLay from owner of a pest control business to
unremarkable, and hard-partying, Texas legislator (his
nickname was "Hot Tub Tom"), to the congressional pinnacle
of power. DeLay is the representative who has called the
Environmental Protection Agency "the Gestapo of government,"
that he drove what he dubbed "The Campaign" to impeach Bill
Clinton because Clinton lacked a "biblical worldview," that
he didn't serve in Vietnam because too many minorities had
signed up leaving no room for people like him, and recently
stated any House adoption of a revised bill reinstating tax
credits for poor families "ain't going to happen." DeLay is
bold—a majority leader with extraordinary powers and
extraordinary ambition—and whether he is maneuvering to
redistrict Texas congressional seats or flying to Israel to
critique the president, he uses that power to shape our
politics here and abroad. It is time a proper introduction
was made to this man, the only member of the House to keep
half a dozen bullwhips on his office wall and a copy of the
Ten Commandments on the windowsill.
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