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Rayburn: A Biography, by D. B. Hardeman and Donald C. Bacon (Texas Monthly Press, 554 pp., $21.95)

You never know any more; the politician you cuss roundly today may tomorrow coax nostalgic tears from your eyes. The more water that flows beneath our political bridges, the better, in some respects, certain figures look—Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, for instance.

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Rayburn: A Biography, by D. B. Hardeman and Donald C. Bacon (Texas Monthly Press, 554 pp., $21.95)

You never know any more; the politician you cuss roundly today may tomorrow coax nostalgic tears from your eyes. The more water that flows beneath our political bridges, the better, in some respects, certain figures look—Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, for instance.