Bill Minutaglio

Bill Minutaglio is co-author, with W. Michael Smith, of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, released this week by PublicAffairs. He is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including George W. Bush & The Bush Family Dynasty and The President’s Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales.

When the LSD King Hid in Africa with the Black Panthers

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In 1970 the man Richard Nixon called ‘the most dangerous man in America’ broke out of jail and escaped to Algeria, where he briefly enjoyed the hospitality of the Black Panthers.

Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis | Published Jan 26, 2018

Oswald’s First Target

<p>Months before Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy 50 years ago this November, he tried to kill someone else: General Edwin Walker, an ultra-right winger who was arrested for sedition on Kennedy’s orders. In an excerpt from their new book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dallas-1963-Bill-Minutaglio/dp/1455522090/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380818445&sr=8-1&keywords=dallas+1963" target="_blank">Dallas 1963</a></i>, the story of Walker’s anti-civil rights tour through the south and Oswald’s personal collapse that led to their almost fatal encounter.</p>

Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis | Published Oct 03, 2013

"The Only Woman in the Room"

Molly Ivins was the most popular liberal commentator of the last 25 years. Bill Minutaglio, author of a new biography of the tangy Texan, on why her voice is needed now more than ever.

Bill Minutaglio | Published Nov 14, 2009