Murray as Activist

Murray as activist. This is not a phrase that I think I associate or the field associates with Murray. I just read this passage

It exposes not only the discriminatory proclivity of traditional agonistic rhetoric of the nineteenth century, but also explores the impact of the social and political activism of women who labored to transcend it—their influence in education and society and the legacy they bestowed.

in a book review on a book of a book on Gertrude Buck and it got me thinking about the activist as an interesting frame for thinking about and talking about Murray's work/legacy. Murray was an activist and an advocate--but is he understood this way? Interesting and worth thinking about more... The book might also be worth reading as a model of someone writing an entire book about a particular individual in the field of writing studies--a historical study of one person, which is sort of what I have been envisioning.