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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... night when , as mayor , he [ did indeed ] let a handful of communists and sym- pathizers gather at the Municipal Auditorium . For days every newspaper in town whipped up an air of hatred . [ The night of the riot ] my entire family hid ...
... night when , as mayor , he [ did indeed ] let a handful of communists and sym- pathizers gather at the Municipal Auditorium . For days every newspaper in town whipped up an air of hatred . [ The night of the riot ] my entire family hid ...
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... night was spent in a cold rain on the east bank of the Salado . The feared invasion came some months later with General Adrian Woll , a French soldier of fortune , in command of some one thousand Mexican soldiers . Woll was defeated and ...
... night was spent in a cold rain on the east bank of the Salado . The feared invasion came some months later with General Adrian Woll , a French soldier of fortune , in command of some one thousand Mexican soldiers . Woll was defeated and ...
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... night that she would have a son and that he would be a Methodist preacher . There is no family in South Texas more Methodist than the Faulks . But when Johnny got to be a grown man , his mother told him : " From the language you were ...
... night that she would have a son and that he would be a Methodist preacher . There is no family in South Texas more Methodist than the Faulks . But when Johnny got to be a grown man , his mother told him : " From the language you were ...
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Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
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