Char Miller

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new biography, the first in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement, historian Char Miller sets forth an engaging description and analysis of the man--his character, passions, and personality--and the larger world through which he moved. The author brings together insights from cultural and social history and recently discovered primary sources to support a new interpretation of Gifford Pinchot, whose activism not only helped define environmental politics in early twentieth-century America but remains strikingly relevant today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781559638234
• ISBN-10: 1559638230
• Artikelnr.: 21053898

Autorenporträt

Char Miller is Director of the Environmental Analysis Program and W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Miller is the author of many articles on environmental history, politics, and other issues for a wide range of publications, both professional and popular. For his book Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, Miller won the Independent Publisher Book Award; Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, Gold Award 2001; National Outdoor Book Award; Connecticut Book Award; and Booklist Magazine (April 2001), Top Ten Biographies of Social Activists