Brann and the Iconoclast / Charles Carver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carver, Charles, Author.

Contributor:

Bedichek, Roy, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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 reduced to size. delighted with the art of the biographer. It has genuine literary excellence. is a chapter in the history of the publishing business in Texas that needs to be put into print."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Prologue

CHAPTER 1 The "Romish Conspiracy"

CHAPTER 2 Carlyle and the Courthouse Run

CHAPTER 3 "The Athens of Texas"

CHAPTER 4 Attack-and Sell

CHAPTER 5 The Crime

CHAPTER 6 The Defense

CHAPTER 7 The Course of Justice

CHAPTER 8 Pot Pourri

CHAPTER 9 "Sexual Purity and Gunpowder"

CHAPTER 10 The Abduction

CHAPTER 11 The Whipping

CHAPTER 12 "Ropes, Revolvers, and Religion"

CHAPTER 13 "Six-Shooter Depot"

CHAPTER 14 "Go Cork Yourselves"

CHAPTER 15 "Come Along, Mr. Brann!"

Epilogue

Source Material

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780292766921

0292766920

OCLC:

1511483959