Green voices
Subtitle: defending nature and the environment in American civic discourse
By: edited by Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9781438458496; 9781438458519
Subjects: Green movement; Environmentalism
Description: "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, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical. In other words, this collection examines the broad sweep of US environmental history from the perspective of our most famous and influential environmental figures." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental Advocacy / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy; title: Coming to Grips with the Size of America' s Environment : Charles Sumner Says Farewell to Montesquieu / Michael J. Hostetler; title: "I Had Been Crying in the Wilderness" : John Muir's Shifting Sublime Response / Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of Conservation / Leroy G. Dorsey; title: See America First! : The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism / Anne Marie Todd; title: 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; title: "Conserving Not Scenery, But the Human Spirit" : The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson / C. Brant Short; title: "What's Wrong with a Little Emotion?" : Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness Rhetoric / Elizabeth Lawson; title: Rachel Carson's War of Words Against Government and Industry : Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse / Michel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major; title: Mortification and Moral Equivalents : President Jimmy Carter's Address on Energy and the Environment on April 18, 1977 / Terence Check; title: 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; title: Restoring Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address : Orations that Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness" / Ellen W. Gorsevski; title: "We Will Live to Piss on their Graves" : Edward Abbey, Earth First!, and the Galvanizing of a Nation / Derek G. Ross; title: "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; title: Ashley Judd's Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining : A Stain on the Conscience of America / Beth M. Waggenspack and Matthew VanDyke; title: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice : Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and Community / Richard W. Leeman.