Richard Parker delivers a provocative and eye-opening look at the most explosive and controversial state in the us, where everything is larger, bolder-and is shaping the continuing future of America. Us citizens today are reckoning with a fresh Texas-that love-it-or-hate-it giant slice of America which has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented differ from the Civil Battle to the election of George W. Bush and the Iraq Battle. In LONE STAR Country, Parker examines this changing landscape. However the Tx about Lone Star Nation: How Tx Will Transform the America that Us citizens think they understand is changing, and as a result it will modify America itself in the twenty-first century, just like California did within the last century. Richard Parker uncovers a new Tx: a profoundly metropolitan one, an overwhelmingly Hispanic one, an extremely liberal one, and one succeeding in the global overall economy while having to face the looming risks of poverty and environment change-and eventually. He explores the broader implications of change in Texas that may help remake Washington and energize the American economy. Along the way, he stocks the stories of the powerful and everyday people that are shaping Tx and, because of this, the united states itself, as one in every five Us citizens will soon contact Tx another thing: Home. Richard Parker is an award-winning journalist who writes about political, economic, technological and social modification. His work appears in the Op-Ed and Weekend Review sections of the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and various other major papers. He lives in the Tx hill country outside Austin.