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Texas reporter Texas radical : the writings of journalist Dick J. Reavis

Title: Texas reporter Texas radical : the writings of journalist Dick J. Reavis / compiled and introduced by Michael Demson.
Author: Reavis, Dick J.
Publication: Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

Demson, Michael

Description

xxxviii, 341 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Writing about Texas, Mexico, and Texan-Mexican relations for over four decades, Dick J. Reavis is one of the most poignant political voices of Texas-not as a politician, though his writings are infused with politics, but as a candid, unsentimental, probing, journalist. Author of ten books and hundreds of articles, Reavis has worked as a reporter, features author, and staff writer (San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer, San Antonio Light), as an Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and as a professor of journalism (North Carolina State University). Throughout his award-winning career, he has returned consistently to investigate the lives of everyday Texans, insistently challenging prevailing political assumptions. It was precisely this commitment that prompted him to investigate the federal government's siege of the Branch Davidians in 1993 outside of Waco, TX, which led to perhaps his most notorious publication, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation (1995). That project, however, needs to be contextualized in relation to the greater body of his writings, which includes investigations of Mexican guerillas and Texas biker-gangs, the struggles of urban day-laborers and of undocumented immigrants in rural areas, the politics of Texas Radicals during the Civil Rights movement, and the activities of the Klan across the state, to identify but a few. This collection of Reavis's writings brings into focus the voice and political commitments of this critical, contemporary, Texas writer"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Autobiographical Writings: Have Beetle, Will Travel -- Selections from If White Kids Die: Memoirs of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer -- An Autobiographical Sketch -- The IWW: One Big Union and teh Relevance of Anarchism -- The Late 1970s: The Kickapoo: A Hut is Not a Home -- At War in the Mexican Jungle -- The Smoldering Fire -- A Season in Hell -- Sections from Without Documents -- Never Love a Bandido -- The 1980s: Unreliable Witness -- Klan on the Ropes -- Town Without Pity -- Passing On -- Unionbusters -- The 1990s: Selections from The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation -- Crazy like a Fox: Robert Fox is Not Nuts. He Just Wants the Government to Pay Him $1 Million. In Gold. Every Day -- Standoff in Montana -- The 2000s : Los Padilllas -- What's It Take to Get an Anti-War Movement Going? -- The Real Winners in Mexico -- The 2010s: from Catching Out: The Secret WOrld of Day Laborers -- Fort Worth's Red Scare -- They Fought the Law -- No Place for Old Men.

Call Number

JFE 23-1556

ISBN

9781680032260
1680032267
9781680032277 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021058203
40031461662

OCLC

1300754171

Author

Reavis, Dick J., author.

Title

Texas reporter Texas radical : the writings of journalist Dick J. Reavis / compiled and introduced by Michael Demson.

Publisher

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2022]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Demson, Michael, editor, writer of introduction.

Other Form:

Online version: Reavis, Dick J. Texas reporter, Texas radical. First edition Huntsville, Texas : TRP: The University Press of SHSU, [2022] 9781680032277 (DLC) 2021058204

Other Standard Identifier

40031461662

Sudoc No.

Z S200.8 R238te txdocs

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1556

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