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Anyone who looks backward from the last twenty-five years of Texas politics could be easily fooled into thinking that conservative Republicans had always won the day and spoke for the majority of Texans. In his excellent book, however, Sean Cunningham starts in the 1920s and offers an alternative and far more accurate view. Democrats, often of the liberal variety on everything except race, dominated all aspects of politics in Texas from 1930 to 1950. Franklin D. Roosevelt was especially popular in Texas, and as Cunningham makes clear, may have been the most popular president in Texas of all time. Read this well-written and compelling book for an antidote to what you thought you knew about Texas politics before 1950. --Walter L. Buenger, Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History, University of Texas at Austin

"""Recommended for anyone interested in Texas New Deal-era political history.""--Southwestern Historical Quarterly ""Anyone who looks backward from the last twenty-five years of Texas politics could be easily fooled into thinking that conservative Republicans had always won the day and spoke for the majority of Texans. In his excellent book, however, Sean Cunningham starts in the 1920s and offers an alternative and far more accurate view. Democrats, often of the liberal variety on everything except race, dominated all aspects of politics in Texas from 1930 to 1950. Franklin D. Roosevelt was especially popular in Texas, and as Cunningham makes clear, may have been the most popular president in Texas of all time. Read this well-written and compelling book for an antidote to what you thought you knew about Texas politics before 1950."" --Walter L. Buenger, Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History, University of Texas at Austin""Sean Cunningham has done it again! The prolific author of Cowboy Conservatism and American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt has turned his attention to Texas Democrats in the Age of Roosevelt and has written his best and most important book yet. Meticulously researched and enlivened with vigorous prose, Cunningham succeeds in making the case that the perception of Texas as a bastion of Republican conservatism has a far more complicated reality. Anybody interested in understanding not only Texas politics but also US politics ought to run out and pick up a copy of Bootstrap Liberalism.""--Edward H. Miller, associate teaching professor, Northeastern University"

Anyone who looks backward from the last twenty-five years of Texas politics could be easily fooled into thinking that conservative Republicans had always won the day and spoke for the majority of Texans. In his excellent book, however, Sean Cunningham starts in the 1920s and offers an alternative and far more accurate view. Democrats, often of the liberal variety on everything except race, dominated all aspects of politics in Texas from 1930 to 1950. Franklin D. Roosevelt was especially popular in Texas, and as Cunningham makes clear, may have been the most popular president in Texas of all time. Read this well-written and compelling book for an antidote to what you thought you knew about Texas politics before 1950. --Walter L. Buenger, Summerlee Foundation Chair in Texas History, University of Texas at AustinSean Cunningham has done it again! The prolific author of Cowboy Conservatism and American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt has turned his attention to Texas Democrats in the Age of Roosevelt and has written his best and most important book yet. Meticulously researched and enlivened with vigorous prose, Cunningham succeeds in making the case that the perception of Texas as a bastion of Republican conservatism has a far more complicated reality. Anybody interested in understanding not only Texas politics but also US politics ought to run out and pick up a copy of Bootstrap Liberalism.--Edward H. Miller, associate teaching professor, Northeastern University

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Sean P. Cunningham is associate professor and chair of history at Texas Tech University and author of Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right and American Politics in the Postwar Sunbelt: Conservative Growth in a Battleground Region.

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