Impeached

<p>In 1917 barely into his second term as governor of Texas James E. Ferguson was impeached convicted and removed from office. <em>Impeached</em> provides a new examination of the rise and fall of Ferguson’s political fortunes offering a focused look at how battles over economic class academic freedom women’s enfranchisement and concentrated political power came to be directed toward one politician.<br /><br />Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Bruce A. Glasrud have brought together top scholars to shine a light on this unique chapter in Texas history. An overview by John R. Lundberg offers a comprehensive survey of the impeachment process. Kay Reed Arnold then follows the Ferguson story into the halls of academia at the University of Texas—which Ferguson threatened to close—sparking a fierce response by faculty alumni students and especially the Women’s Committee for Good Government. Rachel M. Gunter further places the Ferguson impeachment in the context of the suffrage movement. Leah LaGrone Ochoa then explores Ferguson’s hot-and-cold relationship with the Texas press and Mark Stanley examines the impact of the impeachment on Texas politics in the decades that followed. Jessica Brannon-Wranosky concludes with an assessment of the historical memory of Ferguson's impeachment throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<br /><br /><em>Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson</em> reveals how power ebbed and flowed in twentieth-century Texas and includes several annotated primary documents critical to understanding the Ferguson impeachment.</p><p> </p><p>JESSICA BRANNON-WRANOSKY is associate professor of history at Texas A&M University–Commerce. Her most recent publications include contributions to <em>Texas Women: Their Histories Their Lives</em> and <em>Discovering Texas History</em>. BRUCE A. GLASRUD is professor emeritus of history at California State University East Bay and retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. He is the author coauthor or editor of more than two dozen books most recently <em>Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas</em>.</p>