Once an inspiration two writers and artists and a rich source of livelihood for fisherman, the Hudson River, by the 1960s, had been transformed by pollution from a national treasure into a national joke. Here two leaders of the successful Hudson Riverkeeper organization recount the investigations, the court battles, and the ultimate triumph in reclaiming the most basic human right of all--the right to a safe environment.
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Once an inspiration two writers and artists and a rich source of livelihood for fisherman, the Hudson River, by the 1960s, had been transformed by pollution from a national treasure into a national joke. Here two leaders of the successful Hudson Riverkeeper organization recount the investigations, the court battles, and the ultimate triumph in reclaiming the most basic human right of all--the right to a safe environment.
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Fair. Stains on outside cover/inside the book. Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CD's, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included. Book/spine is skewed.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. The authors describe their confrontations and eventual triumphs over the electric power industry, Exxon, the Army Corps of Engineers, and other environmental lawbreakers. residents and local fishermen, became one of the United States' first major environmental battlegrounds. Out of those early legal wrangles emerged some important environmental legislation, and also the Soundkeeper organization, with a mandate to fight for the health of this historic New York river. This book reveals something about the organization, and even more about the history of the Hudson and environmentalism in America.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. With a foreward by (now former) Vice-President Al Gore, the fascinating true story of a 'blue blood' and a blue-collar worker working together to enact and enforce legislation in order to clean up and protect the Hudson River Valley of America's eastern seaboard. Has much information on how serious and committed environmentalists can productively work with government on a practical level to do good. Hardcover with dust jacket, appendix, indexed, 302pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
