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Author:   Richard A. Holland
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Edition:   0th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292745469

ISBN 10:   029274546
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction (Richard A. Holland) Profiles J. Frank Dobie: A Reappraisal (Don Graham) The Woman Who Ran Ransom's University (Harold Billings) Some Blues for a Trio (Chad Oliver) A Particular Friend of Shakespeare's (William Hauptman) On Richard Fleming: Tribute to Richard T. Fleming at Memorial Services, March 16, 1973 (Joe B. Frantz) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Chairman Frank (Richard A. Holland) Américo Paredes and Rancho UT Austin (José Limón) The Week James Michener Died (James Magnuson) History George W. Brackenridge, George W. Littlefield, and the Shadow of the Past (Richard A. Holland) When the Poor Boys Ruled the Campus: A Requiem for B. Hall (David Dettmer) Campus Architecture: The Heroic Decades (Lawrence Speck) Blacks Challenge the White University (Michael L. Gillette) Going Towards a Great Library at Texas: Harry Ransom's Acquisition of the T. E. Hanley Collection (Richard Oram) The University Interscholastic League and the Integration of Texas High School Athletics (Bobby Hawthorne) The View from the Tower (John Schwartz) Desegregation, Affirmative Action, and the Ten-Percent Law (Douglas Laycock) Reminiscences From Cottonwood to the Capital: The University Years (Meade F. Griffin) The Search for William E. Hinds (Walter Prescott Webb) From Mississippi to Texas and Back (Willie Morris) Hairy Ranger, Wonder Wart-hog, and the Sweet Young Thing: Interviews with Texas Ranger Editors Frank Stack and Pat Brown (Richard A. Holland) The Times They Were A'Changin' (Betty Sue Flowers) Remembering Texas (J. M. Coetzee) The Last Bastion (Julius Whittier) Conviction Values: Two Speeches (Barbara Jordan)

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An utterly fascinating tour through both the triumphs and the warts of UT's story. . . . It is absorbing reading for anyone who has a fascination, either loyal, antagonistic, or mixed, with the sprawling empire situated in the heart of our city and state. * Austin Chronicle *

An utterly fascinating tour through both the triumphs and the warts of UT's story... It is absorbing reading for anyone who has a fascination, either loyal, antagonistic, or mixed, with the sprawling empire situated in the heart of our city and state. Austin Chronicle

Author Information

Richard A. Holland was a bibliographer in the University of Texas General Libraries for sixteen years and also the founding curator of the Southwestern Writers Collection at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University–San Marcos.

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