{"product_id":"9780292707658","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\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe impact of William Cowper Brann's Iconoclast 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\n\n\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","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49090649030883,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780292707658-1.jpg?v=1788330582","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9780292707658","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}