
Coyotes and Town Dogs
Earth First! and the Environmental Movement
Susan Zakin(Author)
Markham Press
25th Edition
Published on 25. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
568 pages
978-0-692-14971-3 (ISBN)
Description
When Dave Foreman woke up staring down the gun barrels of FBI agents, he had traveled a long and winding road from Washington, D.C. lobbyist to leader of the country's most loved and hated radical environmental group. Susan Zakin tells the story of the radical environmental group Earth First! against the backdrop of the larger history of U.S. conservation, digging deep into a neglected corner of American history. Zakin's fast-paced narrative is thoughtful and occasionally lyrical, as she gives the conservation movement its rightful place in American history. In this 25th Anniversary edition, updated and revised to reflect the challenges posed by the Trump administration, Zakin shows us that we've been here before, when previous presidents appointed corrupt officials to head the agencies tasked with protecting Americans' land, water, and health. What's different now is the widespread nature of corruption, which reaches to the highest levels of government. Widely adopted as a university text, Zakin's book has been called a primer on how to face our predicament with wit and courage.
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Edition
25th Anniversary ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
813 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-692-14971-3 (9780692149713)
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Susan Zakin is best-known as the author of Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! And the Environmental Movement. She has covered politics and the environment for national magazines. In 2001, a Senator John Heinz Fellow- ship for Environmental Writing took her to Madagascar. Her subsequent articles and essays on African politics and conservation are collected in 2017's Waiting for Charlie: Mercenary Soldiers, Failed States, and the Love That Means More Than Money. A novel, Libertyville, is forthcoming in 2025.