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The future looks bright for Hack Holland as he makes a bid for a congressional seat. A wealthy and progressive politician with a burgeoning law practice and an ex-POW, he's created a persona that the party will certainly back. But the past has a habit of sneaking up on him, especially as he gets closer to the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Standing in the long shadow cast by his ancestors, whose politics were moulded as much by their wilfulness as by their beliefs, Hack's candidacy brings him increasingly into conflict with the Texas powerbrokers as well as some of his closest allies"