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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1975, Wayne Woodward, an English teacher at La Plata Junior High School in Hereford, Texas, was fired. His offense? Founding a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Woodward sued the school district. This book chronicles the circumstances surrounding his dismissal and the ensuing legal battle.
Trade ReviewTimothy Bowman expands and often upends existing histories by locating the early culture wars not in coastal campuses and think tanks but in Hereford, a small town in the Texas Panhandle. The themes of controversy and speech, patriotism and protest, outrage and offense, that are the political oxygen of the early twenty-first century all appear here, near fully formed, in the High Plains of 1974." - Jason Mellard, author of
Progressive Country: How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
