{{Short description|American journalist}} '''Pete Brewton''' teaches journalism and law at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.<ref name=TexasTech>{{cite web|title=Faculty page|url=http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/utilities/get_biog.php?record=8|website=depts.ttu.edu|publisher=Texas Tech|access-date=12 May 2015}}</ref> Brewton is best known for an investigative journalism series he wrote for the ''Houston Post'' that were the basis of a book, ''The Mafia, CIA and George Bush.'' He is a journalist with 15 years reporting experience at the ''Houston Chronicle'' and the ''Houston Post''. He practiced law in Houston for five years.<ref name=Dromgoole>{{cite news|last1=Dromgoole|first1=Glenn|title=Texas authors offer variety of work|publisher=Beaumont Enterprise|date=24 December 2006|id={{ProQuest|373389415}}}}</ref>
Pete Brewton holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Rice University, a master's degree in astronomy from New Mexico State University, a master's degree from the American Graduate School of International Management, and a law degree from the University of Texas. He travels frequently to help with his mother's working cattle ranch in Lampasas County.<ref>back cover of Lone Star Law (Paperback) by Pete Brewton (Author)</ref> He is author of a 2006 novel, ''Lone Star Law.''<ref name=Dromgoole/>
In 1986 he co-won 2 Matrix Awards for his story on "Hermann Hospital Estate" with Mary Flood, and for his story with John Mecklin on County Commissioner Bob Eckels, both in the investigative/interpretive category.<ref name=MatrixAward>{{cite news|title=Chronicle garners 3 Matrix Awards|publisher=Houston Chronicle|date=14 May 1986|id={{ProQuest|295250788}}}}</ref>
==''The Mafia, CIA and George Bush''==
He is the author of the book ''The Mafia, CIA and George Bush'', which is based on his investigations of powerful Texas businessmen, politicians, and their connections to the savings and loans scandals of the 1980s.<ref name=Bethell>{{cite news|last1=Bethell|first1=James|title=Once he was a 'billionaire': now divorce has put him in jail;John Dick|publisher=Times of London|date=19 December 1993|id={{ProQuest|318053570}}}}</ref> The book grew out of an 8-part investigative reporting series that ran in the Houston Post, a series that the Seattle Times columnist John Hinterberger described as "a bombshell series backed up by eight months of investigation."<ref name=Hinterberger>{{cite news|last1=Hinterberger|first1=John|title=Who Will Ask Hard Question: Where is It All?|publisher=Seattle Times|date=12 August 1990|id={{ProQuest|384718857}}}}</ref> The series won the Galvaston Press Club award for best investigative series.<ref name=Galveston>{{cite news|title=GDN Photographer Rizzo's Work Wins First Place|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/13844845/|access-date=12 May 2015|publisher=Galvaston Daily News|date=29 March 1990}}</ref> In 1991 PEN awarded the Journalism prize to Brewton, "Awarded for his series on the Savings & Loan scandal," in the Houston Post.<ref name=PENcenter>{{cite web|title=past winners|url=https://www.penusa.org/awards/winners|website=penusa.org|publisher=Pen Center USA|access-date=13 May 2015}}</ref> Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard characterized Brewton's book as one of a series of anti-Bush books "written in Texas by veteran Texas activists who have grown bitter from the endless frustration and resentment that is their unhappy lot." Andrew Ferguson was a speech writer for George H. W. Bush in 1992.<ref name=Ferguson>{{cite news|last1=Ferguson|first1=Andrew|title=The Birthplace of Bush Paranoia|publisher=Weekly Standard|date=25 October 2004|id={{ProQuest|232989926}}}}</ref> Brewton promoted the book on Alternative Views.<ref name=AustinAm>{{cite news|title=MLK's dream lives on in special broadcasts|publisher=Austin American Statesman|date=10 January 1993|id={{ProQuest|256215818}}}}</ref>
Texas politician Jon Lindsay took out a newspaper advertisement to discredit Brewton's book.<ref name=LindsayAd>{{cite news|title=Sorting it all out: Lies, reporters, books and elected public officials|publisher=Houston Chronicle|date=30 July 1993|id={{ProQuest|391836567}}}}{{dead link|date=July 2017}}</ref>
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