Steve Hausman

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New Books in History · Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

And this makes something like a bibliography just a little less scary, a little less daunting, something that people might actually use, you know, historian or not historian.

I wanted to ask you also about where this story and where this book fits into the larger story of Western history as a whole.

This is a book about West Texas.

You know, Texas often kind of straddles Western and Southern histories in some pretty interesting ways.

But I'm curious where you see this book and this history kind of more broadly fitting into the field of Western studies and the American West in general.

And the book does a really great job of, you know, taking the local seriously while also keeping an eye on the big picture as well.

I mean, the book kind of zooms in and out and shows how both lenses are interconnected really, really well.

So, yeah, I think that you achieve that goal for sure.

So, as a historian, as we start to wrap up here a little bit, you know, you and I are not in the business of making predictions about the future.

At the same time, though, this is a book that is very much about...

historical trends and issues and threads that are very present, very loud in our world today.

So I guess the one thing I would ask you is what's the kind of afterlife to the story that you tell here?

Is this kind of conservative tide in West Texas still on the rise?

Is it breaking at all?

If you were to bring the story up to the present day, how might you do so?

One question I like to ask all of my guests toward the end of my discussions with them is to imagine themselves rather than the author of the book as someone that has read the book and then puts it down, walks away from it and maybe remembers it or picks it back up the shelf a few years on down the line.

What would you hope?

What's like one big point or one idea that you would hope that reader comes away from this book understanding and remembering?

I definitely will come away with both of those takeaways.

I mean, you know, in terms of the first one in particular, I mentioned this a second ago, but the way this book takes seriously regionalism and localism.

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