The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation - Brossura

Rome, Adam

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865477744 ISBN 13: 9780865477742

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2014

Riassunto

Describes the first-ever Earth Day held in 1970 and discusses the ensuing rise of the environmental movement that has since grown to become a major source of inspiration to Americans and others around the world.

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L'autore:

Adam Rome teaches environmental history and environmental nonfiction at the University of Delaware. Before earning his PhD in history, he worked for seven years as a journalist. His first book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Lewis Mumford Prize.

Product Description:

The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure--lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. In "The Genius of Earth Day," the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life.

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• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0865477744
• ISBN 13: 9780865477742
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 346