Last Stand: Logging, Journalism And the Case For Humility - Softcover

Manning, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140172939 ISBN 13: 9780140172935

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

"An unusual and brave book, one that demonstrates that personal integrity is more important than received professional wisdom."&;The Los Angeles Times Book Review

In 1988 Richard Manning, a reporter for the Montana Missoulian, blew the whistle on two out-of-state logging companies that had clear-cut a swath the size of Delaware through the forests of the Northern Rockies. Manning's articles won his paper an award but cost him his job. In Montana logging is big business, with a very long arm, and very few newspapers have the courage to offend the industry. This galvanizing and courageous book is at once the story of Manning's personal odyssey and a front line report on the destruction of the American woodlands and its cover up by much of the press. As path-clearing investigative journalism, Last Stand evokes comparison with the work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; as an impassioned defense of nature, it belongs to the great tradition that extends from John Muir to Edward Abbey. 

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About the Authors

Richard Manning is the author of Grassland, A Good House, and Last Stand, a finalist for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. He worked as a reporter for fifteen years, including four years at the Missoulian. A recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, he has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the first Richard J. Margolis Award for environmental reporting. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Audubon, Outside, Sierra, E, High Country News, and the Bloomsbury Review. Richard Manning lives in the house he built with his wife in Lolo, Montana.

Richard Manning is the author of Grassland, A Good House, and Last Stand, a finalist for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. He worked as a reporter for fifteen years, including four years at theMissoulian. A recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and a three-time winner of theSeattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, he has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the first Richard J. Margolis Award for environmental reporting. His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, includingHarper's, Audubon, Outside, Sierra, E, High Country News, and the Bloomsbury Review.Richard Manning lives in the house he built with his wife in Lolo, Montana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140172939
• ISBN 13: 9780140172935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192