Green Voices : Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse /

Green Voices : Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse /

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The written works of nature's leading advocates--from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few--have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all,...

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Other Authors: Duffy, Bernard K. (Editor), Besel, Richard D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Green movement.
Environmentalism > Social aspects.
Environmentalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Environnementalisme > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Écologisme > États-Unis.
Environmentalism > Social aspects > United States.
Environmentalism > United States.
Green movement > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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, But the Human Spirit" : 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 : President Jimmy Carter's Address on Energy and the Environment on April 18, 1977 / 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
  • Restoring Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address : Orations that Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness" / Ellen W. Gorsevski
  • "We Will Live to Piss on their Graves" : Edward Abbey, Earth First!, and the Galvanizing of a Nation / 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.

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