Green voices : defending nature and the environment in American civic discourse / edited by Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy.
| Other author | Besel, Richard D., editor. |
| Other author | Duffy, Bernard K., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016] |
| Description | xliv, 370 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental Advocacy / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Coming to Grips with the Size of America' s Environment : Charles Sumner Says Farewell to Montesquieu / Michael J. Hostetler -- "I Had Been Crying in the Wilderness" : John Muir's Shifting Sublime Response / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of Conservation / Leroy G. Dorsey -- See America First! : The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism / Anne Marie Todd -- A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire : A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" Address / Melba Hoffer -- "Conserving Not Scenery as Much as the Human Spirit Itself" : The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson / C. Brant Short -- "What's Wrong with a Little Emotion?" : Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson -- Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major -- Mortification and Moral Equivalents : Jimmy Carter's Energy Jeremiad and the Limits of Civic Sacrifice / Terence Check -- Lois Gibbs' Rhetoric of Care : Voicing a Relational Ethic of Compassion, Inclusivity, and Community in Response to the Toxic Disaster at Love Canal / Katie L. Gibson -- Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address : Light Green Orations that Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness" / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- "We Will Live to Piss on their Graves" : Edward Abbey, Radical Environmentalism and the Birth of Earth First! / Derek G. Ross -- "I'm Angry Both as a Citizen and a Father" : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Melodramatic Discourse on the Environmental Consequences of "Crony Capitalism" / Ross Singer -- Ashley Judd's Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining : A Stain on the Conscience of America / Beth M. Waggenspack and Matthew VanDyke -- Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice : Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and Community / Richard W. Leeman. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Green voices. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016] 9781438458519 |
| LCCN | 2014047341 |
| ISBN | 9781438458496 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1438458495 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |