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001 2014027808
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008 140829s2014 vtu b 001 0aeng
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020 $a9781603585859 (hardback)
020 $z9781603585866 (ebook)
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050 00 $aGE56.S69$bA3 2014
082 00 $a363.70092$aB$223
084 $aBIO026000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSpeth, James Gustave.
245 10 $aAngels by the river :$ba memoir of sorts /$cJames Gustave Speth.
264 1 $aWhite River Junction, Vermont :$bChelsea Green Publishing,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 203 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"In Angels by the River, James Gustave 'Gus' Speth recounts his unlikely path from a Southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work. Born and raised in a lovely but racially divided town that later became the scene of South Carolina's horrific Orangeburg Massacre, Speth explores how the civil rights movement and the South's agrarian roots shaped his later work in the heyday of the environmental movement, when he founded two landmark environmental groups, fought for the nation's toughest environmental laws, spearheaded programs in the United Nations, advised the White House, and moved into a leading academic role as dean of Yale's prestigious School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yet, in the end, he arrived somewhere quite unexpected--still believing change is possible, but not within the current political and economic system. Throughout this compelling memoir, Speth intertwines three stories--his own, his hometown's, and his country's--focusing mainly on his early years and the lessons he drew from them, and his later years, in which he comes full circle in applying those lessons. In the process he invites others to join him politically at or near the place at which he has arrived, wherever they may have started"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I -- 1. The River -- Part II -- 2. Things Fall Apart -- 3. Orangeburg 1968 -- 4. South and Nation -- Part III -- 5. Reflections on a Résumé -- Part IV -- 6. The Greening -- 7. Environmentalism at the Crossroads -- 8. "Ultimate Insider" Goes Radical -- Part V -- 9. Some Things I Think I've Learned.
600 10 $aSpeth, James Gustave.
650 0 $aEnvironmentalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAgriculture$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory.
651 0 $aOrangeburg (S.C.)$vBiography.
651 0 $aOrangeburg (S.C.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aDeans (Education)$zConnecticut$zNew Haven$vBiography.
610 20 $aYale University.$bSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies$vBiography.
650 0 $aRadicals$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSocial change$zUnited States$xPhilosophy.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://cgreen.stisonbooks.com/images/books/native/9781603585859.jpg