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Texas reporter Texas radical : the writings of journalist Dick J. Reavis / compiled and introduced by Michael Demson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reavis, Dick J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--Miscellanea.
- Texas.
- Texas--Politics and government--20th century.
- Texas--Politics and government--21st century.
- Texas--Social conditions--20th century.
- Texas--Social conditions--21st century.
- Texas--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Reavis, Dick J.
- Journalists--Texas--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Civil rights workers--Texas--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Writing about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political voices of Texas-not as a politician, though his writings are infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing, journalist. Author of ten books and hundreds of articles, Reavis has worked as a reporter, features author, and staff writer (San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer, San Antonio Light), as an Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and as a professor of journalism (North Carolina State University). Throughout his award-winning career, he has returned consistently to investigate the lives of everyday Texans, insistently challenging prevailing political assumptions. It was precisely this commitment that prompted him to investigate the federal government's siege of the Branch Davidians in 1993 outside of Waco, TX, which led to perhaps his most notorious publication, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation (1995). That project, however, needs to be contextualized in relation to the greater body of his writings, which includes investigations of Mexican guerillas and Texas biker-gangs, the struggles of urban day-laborers and of undocumented immigrants in rural areas, the politics of Texas Radicals during the Civil Rights movement, and the activities of the Klan across the state, to identify but a few. This collection of Reavis's writings brings into focus the voice and political commitments of this critical, contemporary, Texas writer"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Autobiographical Writings
- Have Beetle, Will Travel
- Selections from If White Kids Die: Memoirs of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer
- An Autobiographical Sketch
- The IWW: One Big Union and the Relevance of Anarchism
- The 1970s
- The Kickapoo: A Hut is Not a Home
- At War in the Mexican Jungle
- "The Smoldering Fire
- A Season in Hell
- Selections from Without Documents
- Never Love a Bandido
- THE 1980S
- Unreliable Witness
- Klan on the Ropes
- Town Without Pity
- Passing On
- Unionbusters
- The 1990s
- Selections from The Asbes of Waco: An Investigation
- Crazy Like a Fox: Robert Fox is Not Nuti. He Just Wants the Government to Pay Him $1 Million. In Gold. Every Day
- Standoff in Montana
- The 2000s
- Los Padillas
- What's It Take to Get an Anti-War Movement Going?
- The Real Winners in Mexico
- The 2010s
- From Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers
- Fort Worth's Red Scare
- They Fought the Law
- No Place for Old Men.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reavis, Dick J. Texas reporter, Texas radical.
- ISBN:
- 9781680032260
- 1680032267
- OCLC:
- 1300754171
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