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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... governor of Texas , a term of office he held from January 1939 to August 1941 at which time he became a U. S. senator . O'Daniel hosted a folksy radio program , with the Lightcrust Doughboys playing country music , and campaigned for ...
... governor of Texas , a term of office he held from January 1939 to August 1941 at which time he became a U. S. senator . O'Daniel hosted a folksy radio program , with the Lightcrust Doughboys playing country music , and campaigned for ...
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... governor . ... It was the people of German descent who mostly stuck with Sam Houston : Later on they would pay for it with their blood . In San Antonio he had spoken at San Pedro Springs against seces- sion ; Bexar with a large German ...
... governor . ... It was the people of German descent who mostly stuck with Sam Houston : Later on they would pay for it with their blood . In San Antonio he had spoken at San Pedro Springs against seces- sion ; Bexar with a large German ...
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... Governor's Mansion . He also taught the children of Governor Pendleton Murrah , who became gov- ernor in 1863 . ( Murrah was loyal to the South , but he knew it was a hope- less war . He did not like the arbitrary way Confederate ...
... Governor's Mansion . He also taught the children of Governor Pendleton Murrah , who became gov- ernor in 1863 . ( Murrah was loyal to the South , but he knew it was a hope- less war . He did not like the arbitrary way Confederate ...
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Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
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