Ronnie Dugger

Education

Dugger attended Utah and was editor of The Daily Texan 1950-1951.

Career

He was the founding editor of from 1954 to 1961. Later he served as the Observer’s publisher, spending more than 40 years with the political newsmagazine. Dugger has published hundreds of articles in Harper"s Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals.

The following year he was dubbed the "godfather of progressive journalism in Texas" in an in-depth feature published in the Austin American Statesman by Brad Buchholz.

Shivers accused Dugger and his friends of being communists. Dugger criticized Lyndon B. Johnson and his shift away from the left of the Democratic Party when he came under the influence of Herman Brown and George R. Brown.

"The alliance (of Brown & Root and Johnson) became common knowledge as his political identity changed from left to right before everyone"s eyes." Dugger said. In 1996, Ronnie Dugger also co-founded The Alliance for Democracy, a national grassroots populist organization.

In 2000 Dugger sought the Green Party"s nomination for the United States. Senate in New New York

Dugger used his 2011 George Polk Award acceptance speech to question the nuclear policy of mutually assured destruction, saying, "Why are nuclear weapons called weapons of mass destruction when morally they are weapons of mass murder?" This continued his long vocal concern about nuclear weapons going back to his questioning of Lyndon Baines Johnson about how many would be killed in an nuclear war up to expressing doubts when President Obama calls for a nuclear-free world. From the first "I sought to practice journalism according to three basic standards, accuracy, fairness." He went on to mentor and influence progressive Texas journalists Willie Morris, Molly Ivins, Billy Lee Brammer, Lawrence Goodwyn, Kaye Northcott, and Jim Hightower. Dugger taught at the University of Virginia, Hampshire College, and the University of Illinois.

He also held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Achievements

• In 2011 Dugger won the George Polk Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in journalism.

Works

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  • On (Ronald) Reagan: The Man and His Presidency

    (On Reagan: The Man & His Presidency, by Dugger, Ronnie)

  • On (Ronald) Reagan: The Man and His Presidency by Ronnie Dugger (1983-12-02)

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