Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State
Richards, David
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275 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2. Red cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Dark blue glossy dj. No damage or markings. Codice articolo 104133
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Titolo: Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the ...
Casa editrice: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: DJ: Very Good
Edizione: 1st ed.
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"[David Richards is] one of the best civil-rights lawyers and one of the best all-purpose battlers for justice this state has ever produced.... One man/one vote, school desegregation, freedom of speech, the list of cases with David Richards' name on them as attorney for those getting shafted by unfair and unconstitutional laws goes on and on. So many of them seem self-evident by now. The shame of legal segregation is so clear to us at this point, we forget when it was worth a person's life to work to change it."
—Molly Ivins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Once upon a time in Texas...there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant and more tolerable. David Richards was one of them. In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and political battles, and the wins and losses that brought significant gains in civil rights, voter rights, labor law, and civil liberties to the people of Texas from the 1950s to the 1990s.
In his work as a lawyer, Richards was involved in cases covering voters' rights, school finance reform, and a myriad of civil liberties and free speech cases. In telling these stories, he vividly evokes the "glory days" of Austin liberalism, when a who's who of Texas activists plotted strategy at watering holes such as Scholz Garden and the Armadillo World Headquarters. Likewise, he offers vivid portraits of liberal politicians from Ralph Yarborough to Ann Richards (his former wife), progressive journalists such as Molly Ivins and the Texas Observer staff, and the hippies, hellraisers, and musicians who all challenged Texas's conservative status quo.
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