Re: Texas political economy, see the new Michael Lind book on Dubya. (His book defending the Vietnam War was maddening, though I do recommend his chapter on the anti-war movement with his critique of standard works like the ones by Bernard Fall, Joseph Buttinger,George T. McKahin, "Fire In The Lake, " by Frances Fitzgerald recently re-issued by Random House/Vintage, Lloyd Gardner,Gabriel Kolko, Zinn, Chomsky... (Edwin Moise, one of the main sources for Gabriel Kolko volume on the war, has an excellentannotated bibliography on the Vietnam War here, <URL: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html > ) (On the splits between and within the left, right and centrist intelligentsia over the Vietnam War see,"Apocalypse Then: American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975. New York: New York University Press, 1998 and <URL: http://squawk.ca/lbo-talk/0209/0485.html >rightist policy wonk, Adam Garfinkle work from the mid-90's on the anti-Vietnam War and anti-Gulf War I movements.) Back to the AmeriKKKan Right and the Kapitalistas, see the excellent power structure analysis/history by Kirkpatrick Sale, published in the mid 70's by Random House/House, "Power Shift, " if memory serves. Expands on Carl Oglesby work on Yankee vs. Cowboy fractions/sectors of the Capitalist class. Blurbed by self-described neo-marxist of the Right, Kevin Phillips. -- Michael Pugliese