Conference on World Affairs

Lou Dubose


Lou Dubose has covered Texas politics for 25 years. He has worked as editor of The Texas Observer and politics editor of The Austin Chronicle. He is the co-author with Molly Ivins of two bestsellers: Shrub: The Short and Happy Political Life of George W. Bush and Bushwhacked: 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 in 2006 under the revised title The Hammer Comes Down: the Nasty, Brutish and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay. In 2006 he wrote, with Texas Observer editor Jake Bernstein, Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency. He lives in Austin, Texas.