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William Cowper Brann

His thousands of admirers called him a saint. His adversaries—and there were many—called him the Devil’s apostle. But Waco publisher and journalist William Cowper Brann preferred to be known by the name of the weekly journal he published, the Iconoclast.

Image: William Cowper Brann sitting in his office at the Iconoclast. Image courtesy of The Texas Collection, Baylor University.

Audio: Houston Public Media

Photograph of William Cowper Brann sitting in his office at the Iconoclast