Brann and the Iconoclast

Name: Brann and the Iconoclast
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ISBN: 9780292707658

ISBN-10: 0292707657

ISBN-13: 9780292707658

Edition: 1957 (Reprint)

Authors: Charles Carver, Roy Bedichek

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"They wouldn't let him rest--even in his grave." Thus Charles Carver opens his story of the climactic years of a journalist who had poured out such blazing prose that readers from England to Hawaii mourned his murder.The impact of William Cowper Brann's Iconoclast upon the town of Waco, Texas, in the 1890's was like a rocket burst in a quiet sky. Rebelling against Victorian hypocrisy, the newspaperman took aim at organized virtue, exemplified for him by Baylor University and other Baptist organizations.Dr. Roy Bedichek, noted author and naturalist, knew Brann, and after reading this book in manuscript said, "I am at once delighted and disappointed: disappointed to find my teen-age hero…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1957
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1957
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long
Weight: 0.990
Language: English