{"product_id":"9780292789913","title":"Brann and the Iconoclast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe impact of William Cowper Brann's \u003ccite\u003eIconoclast\u003c\/cite\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. 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....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107766026480,"sku":"9780292789913","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780292789913_p0.jpg?v=1763682622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780292789913","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}