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Frank Dobie: A Liberated Mind is the first biography of Dobie in 30 years and offers a fresh look at the famed Texas folklorist and intellectual freedom-fighter.

James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during Missing: abraham.

Dobie brought scholarship out of the ivory tower and down to earth, where it could be shared among the people. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights.

Tracing the full arc of Dobie's life , Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on "free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI which secretly investigated him as Texas's leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.

Essential J. Frank Dobie Steve Davis gives us a much richer understanding of Dobie than we have had previously.

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Davis' biography outfits the myth in flesh and blood. Frank Dobie legend and never fails to entertain. The book is one every Texan should read and then go back and read Dobie's books again.