Texas Iconoclast, Maury Maverick JrTexas Christian University Press, 1997 - 299 من الصفحات Few people who know him or read his Sunday column in the San Antonio Express-News are neutral about Maury Maverick Jr., not only one of the twentieth century's most outspoken iconoclasts but an individualist who helped shape American constitutional history. Many of Maverick's columns continue his efforts to achieve civil rights guarantees for the disadvantaged. They draw heavily on what he learned from his previous professional careers as a politician, a teacher, and, more significantly, a successful civil-rights lawyer. The legal issues which most deeply interest Maverick are free speech, due process of law, separation of church and state, world peace, and preservation of human dignity. Using the press as an avenue to express his political, economic, social, and religious views has kept Maverick active in public life. He has observed: "Journalism gives me a kinship with sculptors who start out with a big blob of nothing and try to make it into something. . . . Because of journalism, I feel that artists, poets and musicians are my spiritual cousins. I never had that feeling about the law." But occasionally Maverick gets tired of politics, and then he writes about pinto beans, poetry, music, birds, abandoned dogs, and gardening. He has a special fondness for stray dogs, many of whom he adopts, and purple martin shelters, which he urges people to build. Allan O. Kownslar has selected Express-News columns to reveal Maverick's views on a variety of topics, from heroes to the Red Scare, Maverick relatives to war. The result is a look at important events in history and selected individuals. |
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... Mexican General Martín Perfecto de Cos during December 1835 , was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence ... Mexican forces . During one of the latter , Mexican troops under the command of General Adrian Woll attacked San ...
... Mexican General Martín Perfecto de Cos during December 1835 , was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence ... Mexican forces . During one of the latter , Mexican troops under the command of General Adrian Woll attacked San ...
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... Mexican- Americans should have no interest in the Alamo . Anglo histori- ans are entitled to an even harder rap on the knuckles for they , along with Gus , have ignored the " Tejanos " or Mexicans who died at the Alamo [ and that ...
... Mexican- Americans should have no interest in the Alamo . Anglo histori- ans are entitled to an even harder rap on the knuckles for they , along with Gus , have ignored the " Tejanos " or Mexicans who died at the Alamo [ and that ...
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... Mexican- Americans . . . . Now and then I walk through the Alamo grounds . It's a good place to think about our country , for courage is courage whether it is a Cleto Rodriguez in World War II or blacks dying out of proportion to their ...
... Mexican- Americans . . . . Now and then I walk through the Alamo grounds . It's a good place to think about our country , for courage is courage whether it is a Cleto Rodriguez in World War II or blacks dying out of proportion to their ...
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Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
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