Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas [Paperback]

Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws.Big, Hot, Cheap, and Rightis a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas.Erica Griederis a senior editor atTexas Monthly. From 2007-2012, she covered Texas as the southwest correspondent for theEconomist, to which she still contributes. Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times, theSpectator, theAtlantic, Foreign Policy, and theNew Republic. She lives in Austin.