"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...."
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