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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... began ] : " Mayor Maverick , this is Elizabeth Graham calling you from the Conservation Society , and I want you to know that we are not going to permit you to put flush toi- lets in the Governor's Palace . " " Why not ? " my father ...
... began ] : " Mayor Maverick , this is Elizabeth Graham calling you from the Conservation Society , and I want you to know that we are not going to permit you to put flush toi- lets in the Governor's Palace . " " Why not ? " my father ...
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... began when the bishops in their “ spiritual courts " began to examine and try people on matters that had nothing to do with religion and that were none of their business . At the same time , here mentioned as an aside , the idea of sepa ...
... began when the bishops in their “ spiritual courts " began to examine and try people on matters that had nothing to do with religion and that were none of their business . At the same time , here mentioned as an aside , the idea of sepa ...
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... began his first trip to Texas , riding a mustang with no tail . Some folks , both then and now , say he was Old Hickory's secret revo- lutionary agent . [ Once settled in Texas ] Houston was elected as a delegate to the [ Revolutionary ] ...
... began his first trip to Texas , riding a mustang with no tail . Some folks , both then and now , say he was Old Hickory's secret revo- lutionary agent . [ Once settled in Texas ] Houston was elected as a delegate to the [ Revolutionary ] ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Maverick Writes about Iconoclastic Relatives | 9 |
Maverick Writes about Red Scares | 53 |
Copyright | |
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