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The Session: A Novel about Texas Politics
The Session A Novel about Texas Politics Author:Al Dewlen When Dave Youngman, a freshman House member from the Panhandle, drives his disreputable pickup into Austin to attend what the newspapers term "The Billionaire Session" of the Texas Legislature, he quickly discovers there's plenty of horse sense behind the old saying that law, like sausage, is something the consumer should never see... more » being made.
The problem facing the 69th Legislature is an unprecedented one: how to appropriate a three-and-a-half-billion-dollar surplus that shouldn't even exist. Triggering a battle of' wills between the idealistic freshman legislator and sonic thoroughly corrupt old-line politicians, all this accidental affluence leads to the tallest of Texas tales ever told.