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Fifty Years of the Texas Observer Paperback - 2004

by Char Miller (Editor); Foreword by Molly Ivins

While "The Texas Observer" has ventured beyond Texas in its editorial coverage, Miller has chosen a half-century of essays that specifically speak to the state's politics, people, environment, culture, and locales.


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IT WAS A GUTSY THING TO DO, and maybe a little daft: buying out the State Observer and East Texas Democrat, hiring a 24-year-old to edit the renamed Texas Observer, and expecting that the new Austin weekly - through its reporting on social tensions and labor strife, racial violence and political corruption - would radically alter the political landscape of the then largest state in the Union.

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  • Title Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
  • Author Char Miller (Editor); Foreword by Molly Ivins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Maverick Books, San Antonio, Texas
  • Date August 11, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781595340016 / 1595340017
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.48 x 1.07 in (23.16 x 16.46 x 2.72 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Library of Congress subjects Progressivism (United States politics), Texas - Politics and government - 1951-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004008880
  • Dewey Decimal Code 976.406

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The Texas Observer began publishing in Austin in 1954, and in the past five decades it has been an important voice in Texas culture and politics. Following in the muckraking tradition of George Seldes and I. F. Stone, the Observer has championed honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, providing a platform for many of the state's most outspoken writers - Roy Bedicheck, Willie Morris, Molly Ivins, Amado Muro, Maury Maverick, Jim Hightower, and Dagoberto Gilb, to name a few. To mark the Observer's fiftieth anniversary in 2004, Char Miller has gathered a cross-section of the best work to appear in its pages. While the Observer has ventured beyond Texas in its editorial coverage, Miller has chosen pieces that specifically speak to the state's politics, people, environment, culture, and locales. With a foreword by Molly Ivins, these pieces form a progressive chronicle of a half-century of life in Texas.
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