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O Dammit! - A Lexicon and a Lecture from William Cowper Brann, the Iconoclast (Hardcover, New)
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O Dammit! - A Lexicon and a Lecture from William Cowper Brann, the Iconoclast (Hardcover, New)
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'Why am I an Iconoclast?...Sir, I am a seeker of Truth...[W]hen you
get an idea, put it on the anvil and bid the world hit it with the
heaviest sledge. The more you hammer Truth the brighter it
becomes'. When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April
Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published ""The
Iconoclast"", the nation's most controversial magazine, for some
forty months. It was the only American journal to claim a
quarter-of-a-million monthly circulation, owing largely to Brann's
gusto for offering up his 'truths'. Though his circulation was
international, his favorite idols for smashing were those he found
at home in Waco, nicknamed 'Six-Shooter Depot' and which
exemplified, he believed, Texas' reputation for 'furnish[ing] forth
more hidebound dogmatists, narrow-minded bigots and intolerable
fanatics in proportion to population than any other section of
these United States'. Though a twelve-volume 1912 edition of ""The
Iconoclast"" resides here and there in rare book collections,
public access to the writings of Texas' perhaps most infamous and
entertaining journalist has been surprisingly limited. Jerry
Flemmons' lexicon synthesizes the most memorable and current
Brannisms into a facilely retrievable format. From America to Texas
Politics to the Universe, these selected snippets prove how
brightly indeed wisdom, wit, and the well-turned phrase survive
pounding of the ages. But perhaps the beacon of ""O dammit!"" is
the one-man, two-act play that Flemmons presents as a lecture by
Brann on the last day of his life. Though it has been performed
around Texas for more than a decade, it is a script whose every
stage note and direction deserves to be read and whose every line
reflects not only Brann's genius but also that of the man who's
become the keenest authority thereon.
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