Description
Book Synopsis
Taking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978
An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Liberated Mind
- Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause
- Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia
- Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912
- Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914
- Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916
- Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919
- Part 2: The Rising Star
- Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921
- Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923
- Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926
- Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930
- Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930
- Part 3: Mr. Texas
- Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934
- Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935
- Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936
- Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938
- Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939
- Part 4: Texas Needs Brains
- Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941
- Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941
- Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943
- Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946
- Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946
- Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947
- Part 5: Elder Statesman
- Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953
- Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958
- Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960
- Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959
- Part 6: Twilight
- Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962
- Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964
- Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
