Fifty Years of the Texas Observer
Contributors: Molly Ivins (Foreword); Char Miller (Editor)
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: August 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781595340016
Subjects: Media Studies - Print Media; Progressivism (United States politics); Literary Collections; Essays; Sociology; Politics and government; Literature: Classics; Political culture; American - General; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / 20th Century; Social conditions; Texas; Journalism; 1951-; Intellectual life
First sentence: 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.