Lou Dubose has covered Texas politics for twenty-five years. He is the co-author (with Molly Ivins) of two" New York Times" bestsellers, "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush "and B"ushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America." In 2003 he wrote (with Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid) "The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress "(released in paperback as "The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay"). He has also written a political biography of Karl Rove. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Jeanne Goka.
"Texas Observer" executive editor Jake Bernstein has chronicled stories from Washington, D.C., to the jungles of Central America. As a weekly reporter in Miami, he covered the 2000 Florida recount and the Elian Gonzalez story. While working as a freelancer in Guatemala and El Salvador, he wrote about the destruction of the rain forest and the end of guerrilla insurgencies. In Texas, Bernstein's work on Tom DeLay's campaign-finance scandals has won multiple journalism awards. He lives in Austin.
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