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Dancing with Lyndon
Donley Watt
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Description for Dancing with Lyndon
Hardcover. Living in a small conservative and racist town, Thomas Patterson, a stiff young criminal lawyer, is running for state district judge and hoping for endorsements from either the governor or young Lyndon Johnson, who's running for the senate. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texas town, Dancing with Lyndon brings the early 1950s to life. Living in a small conservative and racist town, Thomas Patterson, a stiff young criminal lawyer, is running for state district judge and hoping for endorsements from either the governor or young Lyndon Johnson, who's running for the senate. Thomas's stay-at-home wife and their teenaged son Tommy are satellites to his grandiose political aspirations. But all hopes for a substantial political career are dashed when a black client Thomas successfully defended against a charge of the rape of a white ... Read more
A novel of ambitions and desires thwarted in a small Texas town, Dancing with Lyndon brings the early 1950s to life. Living in a small conservative and racist town, Thomas Patterson, a stiff young criminal lawyer, is running for state district judge and hoping for endorsements from either the governor or young Lyndon Johnson, who's running for the senate. Thomas's stay-at-home wife and their teenaged son Tommy are satellites to his grandiose political aspirations. But all hopes for a substantial political career are dashed when a black client Thomas successfully defended against a charge of the rape of a white ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652801
SKU
V9780875652801
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-36
About Donley Watt
Donley Watt has lived in Texas most of his life. He has owned a contemporary art gallery, been the dean of a community college, and taught fiction writing at several universities. He is the author of the short story collection, Can You Get There from Here?, which won the Steven F. Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for ... Read more
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