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God, Money, And The Rise Of The Republican Congress
PublicAffairs
October 2004
On Sale: September 28, 2004
320 pages
ISBN: 1586482386
EAN: 9781586482381
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
A lively, hard-hitting biography of the pro-business,
pro-Jesus, anti-government, anti-environment House majority
leader who is driving today's Congressional agenda. Tom
DeLay didn't look like he was going to amount to much. He
started his professional career as owner of a pest control
business. His colleagues in the Texas Legislature thought
him unremarkable, if good fun at a party; they called him
"Hot Tub Tom." Today, Tom DeLay is arguably the most
powerful man in Congress; one who has helped to undermine
age-old procedural traditions and to turn the House into a
single-party operation-all without the backing of Karl Rove
or George W. Bush. How did he get from there to here? In The
Hammer Lou Dubose and Jan Reid track DeLay's rise to the
pinnacle of power, illuminating not only his personality and
policies but the forces in American politics which have made
him a player. Long know n for his inflammatory oratory-he
dubbed the Environmental Protection Agency 'the Gestapo of
Government,' and said he hadn't served in Vietnam because
too many minorities had signed up leaving no room for people
like him-DeLay's real power resides in his mastery of the
loopholes and evasions of campaign finance law and of
Byzantine congressional procedure, as well as his deep ties
to the evangelical Christian right. This first book-length
examination of DeLay, based on the authors' long-term
acquaintance with him from his early days in the Texas
Legislature and recent original reporting, illuminates not
only who DeLay is and what he wants, but why Americans
should be plenty concerned about it.
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