People/Characters Jim Wright
Works (10)
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- John Glenn: A Memoir by John H. Glenn
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
- It's Even Worse than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann
- The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert V. Remini
- Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future by Will Bunch
- What I Did by Christopher Wakling
- Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992 by William M. LeoGrande
- Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner
- The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective by Jr. Ronald M. Peters
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| Description | James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. He represented Texas's 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989. He became Speaker of the House after Tip O'Neill retired in 1987. In March 1988, Wright led the House Democratic Caucus as Speaker to override President Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. Wright resigned from Congress in June 1989 amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into compensation that he and his wife had received. After leaving Congress, Wright became a professor at Texas Christian University. He died in Fort Worth in 2015. Wikipedia 2. In Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Jim Wright was a radicalized Evangelical that Alberta talked to at some length when the American Restoration Tour was in Columbus, Ohio. |