Coyotes And Town Dogs: Earth First! And the Environmental Movement - Softcover

Zakin, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140144870 ISBN 13: 9780140144871

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

A timely and important history of the environmental movement since the 1960s--and of its most radical and visible group, Earth First! This wide-ranging book provides an important foundation for understanding the debate of the crucial environmental choices we face in the years to come.

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"Too many books about the American environmental movement have been dry as dust. But Coyotes and Town Dogs is a juicy account of the early days of Earth First! and the all-hell-busting-loose men and women who answered writer Edward Abbey's call to monkeywrenching. . . . A well-reported, fascinating account of the people and politics that define modern American environmentalism." --Earth Journal "Susan Zakin's writing is brilliant and irreverent, tough and funny, opinionated and sometimes outrageous. But this is also a serious work, the most thorough and thoughtful survey of the American environmental movement I have seen. It puts Earth First! and the period of its major battles and internal struggles in the context of the broader American conservation movement. . . . Zakin has done an excellent job of telling the story." --Christian Science Monitor "Like many Easterners, I really never understood Earth First! although I had been following environmental issues for many years. . . . Now I do. Reading Susan Zakin's Coyotes and Town Dogs, a sprawling, rollicking and ultimately melancholy history of Earth First!, is like spending a week around a campfire with its hard-core 'buckaroos.' . . . They had a terrific run, and Coyotes and Town Dogs is one terrific read." --Philip Shabecoff, Los Angeles Times "It's a fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes appalling tale. Whatever you think about Earth First!, this book may well change your mind." --Arizona Daily Star "Zakin, a truly gifted writer, puts the reader right smack into the scene . . . an evocation of as odd a group of people, and as inspiring a collection of landscapes, as could be imagined." --Wilderness Too many books about the American environmental movement have been dry as dust. But "Coyotes and Town Dogs" is a juicy account of the early days of Earth First! and the all-hell-busting-loose men and women who answered writer Edward Abbey's call to monkeywrenching. . . . A well-reported, fascinating account of the people and politics that define modern American environmentalism. "Earth Journal" Susan Zakin's writing is brilliant and irreverent, tough and funny, opinionated and sometimes outrageous. But this is also a serious work, the most thorough and thoughtful survey of the American environmental movement I have seen. It puts Earth First! and the period of its major battles and internal struggles in the context of the broader American conservation movement. . . . Zakin has done an excellent job of telling the story. "Christian Science Monitor" Like many Easterners, I really never understood Earth First! although I had been following environmental issues for many years. . . . Now I do. Reading Susan Zakin's "Coyotes and Town Dogs, " a sprawling, rollicking and ultimately melancholy history of Earth First!, is like spending a week around a campfire with its hard-core 'buckaroos.' . . . They had a terrific run, and "Coyotes and Town Dogs" is one terrific read. Philip Shabecoff, "Los Angeles Times" It's a fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes appalling tale. Whatever you think about Earth First!, this book may well change your mind. "Arizona Daily Star" Zakin, a truly gifted writer, puts the reader right smack into the scene . . . an evocation of as odd a group of people, and as inspiring a collection of landscapes, as could be imagined. "Wilderness""

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140144870
• ISBN 13: 9780140144871
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496