Thu
Jun
11
In the beginning
The first sentence of book one of my political trilogy:
November 2, 1982
It was a miracle—not a walking-on-water, parting-the-Red-Sea type of miracle, but a miracle nonetheless: Paul Davidson Silverman, a 32 year old economics professor, seeking public office for the first time, running for arguably the most powerful office in the state without his party’s support against the incumbent Democrat in a largely one-party state had just been elected Lieutenant Governor of the State of Texas while the incumbent Republican Governor, the first since Reconstruction, had been defeated.
