The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment As a Basic Human Right
John Cronin; Robert Francis Kennedy
Language: English
Published by Scribner, New York, 1997
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Scribner, 1997. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near-Fine. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. 302 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we too can fight for our fundamental right to enjoy our invaluable natural resources. Revealing shocking stories of commonplace environmental crime ¿ from drinking water tainted with hospital waste to fish populations contaminated by freely dumped PCBs ¿ Cronin and Kennedy describe their dramatic confrontations with more than ninety environmental lawbreakers. The Riverkeepers is a timely call to action that will resonate across America as the backlash spearheaded by congressional leaders and their major corporate allies threatens to reverse the hard-won victories in environmental law and policy.…
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- Title
- The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment As a Basic Human Right
- Author
- John Cronin; Robert Francis Kennedy
- Publisher
- Scribner, New York
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684839083
- ISBN 13
- 9780684839080
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Review
This book reveals something about the organisation, even more about the history of the Hudson and of environmentalism in America, from John Winthrop to Newt Gingrich, and quite a bit, too, about the upbringings--glamorous (who'd have thought keeping a pet seal in your swimming pool would lead to activism?) and not-so-unusual--of its authors. Promising early chapters sketch out the exploitation of the river by industry, and describe some of its colourful champions. (One of the most interesting here is Robert H. Boyle, the writer of a seminal account of the Hudson, The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History, who comes off as a hero.) A terrific final section explains in accessible terms the basis for environmental law in the founding of the United States. In between, this book sometimes falters under the weight of too much information. You can't fault these writers for the work they've done, or for the scattered gems of accessible, thoughtful information on the modern environmental movement that make this book worth reading. Just be prepared to pick through some irrelevancies (did Bobby Shriver really bring a leopard tortoise home for Robert Kennedy, Jr. from Kenya in a suitcase?) to get to the heart of this unusual book. --Maria Dolan, Amazon.com
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