Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement

Front Cover
Viking, 1993 - Nature - 483 pages
From tree-spiking old-growth forests to "cracking" desert dams, Earth First! redefined environmentalism in America. Susan Zakin's fast-paced tale of these scruffy radicals and their suit-and-tie counterparts in Washington, D.C., has been described as an unholy marriage of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. The hipster cowboys who founded Earth First! were the first people to sound the alarm on globalization, extinction, and other major environmental issues that face us today. Zakin's gonzo yet impeccably researched account of the rocky trail leading to the morning when FBI agents rousted Earth First! founder Dave Foreman from his bed at gunpoint is essential reading for anyone who cares about mountains, deserts, and freedom. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

From inside the book

Contents

Prologue
1
The Education of an Environmentalist
13
Burn On
30
Copyright

17 other sections not shown

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information