Molly Ivins

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• Molly Ivins, on Bill Clinton, women's issues, & more; 6 of 6 from 1992 Mother Jones fundraiser (10 min)
• Molly Ivins on growing up in the South before the Civil Rights era
  Recorded 1992. Courtesy of Mother Jones and CSPAN
• Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
  Directed by Janice Engel (1h 33m)
• Review of "Raise Hell"
  Manohla Dargis, NY Times, Sept. 5, 2019
  An admiring documentary takes a look at the celebrated Texas journalist who vanquished foes with wit and loathing.
• Wikipedia entry
  Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the Minneapolis Tribune where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined The Texas Observer in the early 1970s and later moved to The New York Times. She became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1980s, and then the Fort Worth Star-Telegram after the Times Herald was sold and shuttered.