How Things Really Work, by Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby
Bill Hobby
Hobby Family Biography

BOOKS

Barnes, Ben. Barn Burning Barn Building: Tales of a Political Life, From LBJ to George W. Bush and Beyond, Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2006.
ISBN 978-1-931721-71-4
Call Number: B B261
See page 231

Clark, James A. with Weldon Hart. The Tactful Texan: A Biography of Governor Will Hobby, New York: Random House, Inc., 1958
Call Number 58-8764
See pages 171, 179, 185, 194, 198, 199, 202, 203

Crawford, Ann Fears, Lorrin Kennamer, and James Reese. Texas-Lone Star Land: Its Geography – Its Government – Its People, Austin, TX: W.S. Benson & Co., 1993.
ISBN 0-87443-156-5
Call Number 976.4 C
See page 785

Dressman, Fran. Gus Wortham: Portrait of a Leader; College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.
ISBN 0-89096-580-3
Call Number B W932D
See pages 11-12

Farabee, Ray. Ray Farabee: Making It Through the Night and Beyond – A Memoir, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-615-25762-4
See pages 175, 187, 195, 200, 208, 216, 253, 261, 306

Gaither, Gerald (Editor). The Multicampus System: Perspectives on Practice and Prospects, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 1999. Published in Korean.
ISBN 1-57922-016-9
Call Number: LB2341.M77 1999
See pages 256-257

Haley, James. Passionate Nation, New York: Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2006.
ISBN 978-0-684-86291-0
Call Number: 976.4 H168
See page 547

Hall, Randal L. William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2000.

Hill Jr., John and Ernie Stromberger. John Hill For the State of Texas: My Years as Attorney General, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
ISBN 978-1-60344-072-1 and 1-60344-072-0
See pages 7, 11, 28, 30-32, 59, 71, 82-83, 97-101, 103, 110

Hobby, Bill with Saralee Tiede. How Things Really Work: Lessons from a Life in Politics, Austin, TX: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2010.

Hobby, Edwin. A treatise on Texas land law, embracing a classification of the leading questions respecting land titles adjudicated in the first fifty-six volumes of Texas reports; the colonization laws and empresario system of Spain, Mexico, and Coahuila and Texas, with their construction and interpretation, St. Louis, MO: The Gilbert Book Company, 1883.

Hobby, Oveta Culp. Around the World in 13 Days, 1947.

Hobby, Oveta Culp. Mr. Chairman, Oklahoma City: The Economy Company,1936.

Hobby, Paul W. with Julie McClure. In Search of New Estremadura. Published privately.
ISBN 0-9748232-0-1

Hobby, William P. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 26, Issue Number 3, August 1960. A review of The Longs of Louisiana by Stan Opotowsky.
See pages 415-416

Hobby, William P. The Journal of Southern History, Vol.69, Issue Number 3, August 2003. A review of Once Upon A Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State by David Richards.
See pages 730-731

Hobby, Sr., William P. (Editor). Tributes in Memory of Willie Cooper Hobby, Houston, 1929.

Hutchison, Senator Kay Bailey. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country, New York: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 2004.
ISBN 0-06-056635-3
Call Number: 920.720973 H978
See pages 254, 259, 261, 262

Johnston, Marguerite. Houston: The Unknown City 1836-1946, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.
ISBN 0-89096-476-9
Call Number 976.41411J73
See pages 286, 420n

Kean, Melissa. Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt, Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-8071-3358-3
See pages 91-92, 265 Notes 122-124

Keith, Gary A. Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman from Texas, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-292-71691-9
Call Number B E19K
See pages 113, 198, 308, 324

Kingston, Mike, Sam Attlesey, and Mary Crawford. The Texas Almanac’s Political History of Texas, Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1992
ISBN 0-89015-855-x
Call Number: 320.4764 K55
See pages 180, 183

Love, Ben. Ben Love: My Life in Texas Commerce, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
ISBN 1-58544-489-8
See page 228

McCall, Brian. The Power of the Texas Governor: Connally to Bush, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2009.
ISBN 978-0-292-71898-2
See pages ix for Foreword by William P. Hobby, 37, 41, 53-54, 56, 68, 71, 108, 137

Murdock, Steve H., et al. The New Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
ISBN 1-58544-305-0
Call Number: HB3525.T4 N48
See page xxxix-xli for Foreword by William P. Hobby

Nicholson, Patrick James. In Time: An Anecdotal History of the First Fifty Years of the University of Houston, Houston, TX: Pacesetter Press, 1977.
ISBN 0-88415-371-1
Call Number: LD2281.H742 N5
See page 447

Pocahontas, Stacy. The Pettus Family, ed., comp. A. Bohmer Rudd, Washington, DC, 1957.

Richards, David. Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.
3 ISBN 0-292-77118-5
Call Number: B R514
See pages 224, 226, 234-243, 245

Shire, Al (Editor). Oveta Culp Hobby, Houston, TX: Western Lithograph, 1997.

Simon, William R. Betty Jo: A Life Remembered; Dallas, TX, Published Privately, 2008.
ISBN 978-0-615-23650-6
See pages 253, 269, 290, 292, 303, 304, 334, 358, 408-409, 413, 416, 444, 470, 503, 508, 548, 576, 617, 621

Smith, Glenn W. The Politics of Deceit: Saving Freedom and Democracy from Extinction, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2004.
ISBN 0-471-66763-3
Call Number: JK275.S55 2004
See page 62

Spaw, Patsy McDonald (Editor), The Texas Senate Volume 1: Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.
ISBN 978-0890964422
See page ix for Foreword by William P. Hobby

Texas Legislative Council, Research Division. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature 1846-2006, Austin, TX: Texas Legislative Council, 2006.
Call Number: JK4866.T48
See pages 88-89

 

ONLINE

Bill Hobby’s Scrap Book http://www.hobbycomm.com/wph/

Guide to the Oveta Culp Hobby Papers. Fondren Library, Woodson Research Center. http://www.rice.edu/fondren

Oveta Culp Hobby. The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/

Oveta Culp Hobby and Lyndon Johnson. The White House Tapes. Presidential Recordings. http://whitehousetapes.net/tapes/johnson/telephone

William P. Hobby Center for Public Service. Texas State University. http://www.txstate.edu/cpm/

William P. Hobby. Rice University, Faculty Report http://report.rice.edu/sir/faculty.detail?p=E3BA7B3504F3B9F9

William P. Hobby, Jr. An Inventory of a William Pettus Hobby, Jr. Scrapbook at the Texas State Archives, 1989. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/20077/tsl-20077.html

 

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