The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank
Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native
soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as
Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns,
Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history, which was quickly
disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and
industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost
disappeared from view-a casualty of changing tastes in literature
and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In
this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J.
Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual
journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who
fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these
causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc
of Dobie's life (1888-1964), Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on
"free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling
for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the
1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which
secretly investigated him) as Texas's leading dissenter during the
McCarthy era.
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