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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.

ISBN-13: 9780692149713

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Markham Press

Publication Date: 08-25-2018

Pages: 568

Product Dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 1.27(d)

Susan Zakin grew up in New York City and attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including Vogue, Salon, GQ, The New York Times, and Orion. She is the founder of the Cowgirls & Pirates, a safari company dedicated to working with communities to preserve nature and culture.

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Chapter One


The
Education of
an Environmentalist

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal domestic empire.
—Bernard De Voto<

Table of Contents

Prologue

1 The Education of an Environmentalist

2 EAST: Burn On

3 West: Phantoms

4 Coyotes and Town Dogs

5 West Meets East

6 Trouble Waiting to Happen

7 Desert Heart, Devil's Highway

8 “Dear Monkeyfucker”

9 The Road Show

10 Bart Rides Out

11 The Oregon Trail

12 The Crackdown

13 The Lost Boy

14 Vineland

15 Splitting the Sheets

16 High Noon

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author