Texas Iconoclast, Maury Maverick JrFew 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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Young Samuel ' s opposition to secession and the duel did serious harm to any
political advancement on his part in South Carolina , so he went to Alabama to
live with his widowed sister . On a business trip to New Orleans , he learned
about ...
Young Samuel ' s opposition to secession and the duel did serious harm to any
political advancement on his part in South Carolina , so he went to Alabama to
live with his widowed sister . On a business trip to New Orleans , he learned
about ...
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I have ever judged of others ' religion by their lives . . . for it is from our lives and
not from our words , that religion must be read . . . . The question before the
human race is whether the God or nature shall govern the world by His own laws
, or ...
I have ever judged of others ' religion by their lives . . . for it is from our lives and
not from our words , that religion must be read . . . . The question before the
human race is whether the God or nature shall govern the world by His own laws
, or ...
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His use of this technique stressed by Leon Eel in Telling Lives : The Biographer '
s Art illustrates that biography " is the art of human portrayal in words ” and also
biographer David McCullough ' s observation that " there ' s nothing more ...
His use of this technique stressed by Leon Eel in Telling Lives : The Biographer '
s Art illustrates that biography " is the art of human portrayal in words ” and also
biographer David McCullough ' s observation that " there ' s nothing more ...
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Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
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