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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The initial meeting between Terrell Louise Dobbs and Maury occurred at a party
held on the Texas Military Institute campus . Terrell was then living with an aunt
and uncle in San Antonio . Maury immediately became interested in Terrell and ...
The initial meeting between Terrell Louise Dobbs and Maury occurred at a party
held on the Texas Military Institute campus . Terrell was then living with an aunt
and uncle in San Antonio . Maury immediately became interested in Terrell and ...
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Eventually the mayor attended one of the fancier garden parties , breathed
graciousness itself through the receiving line , and ... I ' m giving this party fifteen
minutes to get these tents down and all this food indoors , or the police will be
called !
Eventually the mayor attended one of the fancier garden parties , breathed
graciousness itself through the receiving line , and ... I ' m giving this party fifteen
minutes to get these tents down and all this food indoors , or the police will be
called !
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... Un - American Activities Committee was conducting its business in a U . S .
district courtroom in Atlanta while in the jury box sat twelve yellow - dog lawyers
when Frank Wilkinson was asked : “ Are you a member of the Communist Party ?
... Un - American Activities Committee was conducting its business in a U . S .
district courtroom in Atlanta while in the jury box sat twelve yellow - dog lawyers
when Frank Wilkinson was asked : “ Are you a member of the Communist Party ?
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Contents
Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
Copyright | |
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