| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Yellow Dogs and Republicans: Allan Shivers and Texas Two-Party Politics. By Ricky F. Dobbs. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. xii + 194 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.95.)

In 150 readable pages, Dobbs describes the long political career of Allan Shivers. Beginning as a pro-labor state senator, from a labor-dominated district, Shivers married into wealth, advanced politically, and moved increasingly to the right, putting down opponents with outright fabrication and scurrilous innuendo. He became an arch Red-baiter and engaged in some highly questionable business deals. As Dobbs points out, even while his political posture changed, Shivers was remarkably consistent as a tactician, dating from his experience in UT campus politics, where he beat up a criticizing journalist, to a legislative career, during which he voted for some progressive legislation (but against funding it), moving onward and upward, all the while "ruthlessly, efficiently, at times resorting to heavy-handed tactics" (p. 83). In short, he was cut from the whole cloth of Texas one-party politics.

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