Texas has been home to so many colorful characters, out-of-staters might wonder if any normal people live here. And it's true that the "Texian" desire to act out sometimes overcomes even the most sober citizens—which makes it a real challenge for the genuine eccentrics to distinguish themselves from the rest of us. Fortunately, though, many maverick Texans have risen to the test, and in this book, Gene Fowler introduces us to a gallery of Texas eccentrics from the worlds of oil, ranching, real estate, politics, rodeo, metaphysics, showbiz, art, and folklore.
Mavericks rounds up dozens of Fowler's favorite Texas characters, folks like the Trinity River prophet Commodore Basil Muse Hatfield; the colorful poet-politician Cyclone Davis Jr.; Big Bend tourist attraction Bobcat Carter; and the dynamic chief executive of the East Texas Oil Field Governor Willie. Fowler persuasively argues that many of these characters should be viewed as folk performance artists who created "happenings" long before the modern art world took up that practice in the 1960s. Other featured mavericks run the demographic gamut from inspirational connoisseurs of the region's native quirkiness to creative con artists and carnival oddities. But, artist or poser, all of the eccentrics in Mavericks completely embody the style and spirit that makes Texas so interesting, entertaining, and culturally unique.

Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters

Biographies & Memoirs

Fowler, Gene

Historical

University of Texas Press

Regional U.S.

Border Radio: Quacks, Yodelers, Pitchmen, Psychics, and Other Amazing Broadcasters of the American Airwaves, Revised Edition

Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.
This book traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s. Along the way, it shows how border broadcasters pioneered direct sales advertising, helped prove the power of electronic media as a political tool, aided in spreading the popularity of country music, rhythm and blues, and rock, and laid the foundations for today's electronic church. The authors have revised the text to include even more first-hand information and a larger selection of photographs.

Humor & Entertainment

Crawford, Bill

Radio

The Gene Fowler audience wont be disappointed in this one --nor in the subject, Mack Sennett. Principally the life of Sennett in his pie-throwing hey-day, with many sidelights on his associates and those he helped to stardom:- Mabel Normand, Polly Moran, Charlie Chaplin, etc., etc. Old names in review. Told with a grand strain of humor and just enough pathos. [Kirkus Review]

Father Goose

Avon/Books

Beau James: 2

Viking Adult

Hardcover. First Edition. Viking Press. Book is in Fine/Unread condition, pages tight.  Dust Jacket is Very Good, price-clipped, shows minor age-related wear on edges. DJ is now protected by a Mylar cover.  A great buy for a collector, at a great price.

Schnozzola: The story of Jimmy Durante

VIKING

Skyline; a reporter's reminiscence of the 1920s

Viking Press

While many resources on funerals are available to pastors, Gene Fowler offers a perspective of pastoral ministry, a guidebook for ministering and caring throughout the funeral -- from pre-funeral, to the funeral, to post-funeral. He explores what pastors go through at each stage of the funeral process, from when the pastor first learns of the death, to the weeks following the funeral.

Caring Through the Funeral: A Pastor's Guide

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Chalice Pr

For pastors and congregations, caring for those who are grieving is a very important but difficult job. Gene Fowler believes that the church needs a theological understanding of bereavement that can inform the ministry of caring for grieving people. The heart of The Ministry of Lament addresses the relationship between bereavement and the Christian faith in the service of caring ministry. Throughout the book, Fowler brings the psalms of lament into dialogue with a contemporary understanding of mourning so that the entire grief process can be addressed theologically.

The Ministry of Lament: Caring for the Bereaved

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Chalice Press

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