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RE: “Texas Textbook Battles Begin,” July 29.

Rushworth,

I wonder if anyone else caught the irony in the story on Texas and textbooks? I certainly raised my eyebrows when I read that Texas demanded that “textbooks promote democracy” … and then two paragraphs later saw that in determining which books would be allowed in state schools, “David Bradley, a conservative member of the Board of Education, told the Monitor, ‘It’s nice to be king’”!

– Alisdair Smith
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada