Bibliograph

Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy, the activist who saved nature from the conservationists, Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement

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Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy, the activist who saved nature from the conservationists, Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

276338613

Responsibility statement

Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement

Sub title

the activist who saved nature from the conservationists

Summary

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edges personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names Joan of Arc and hellcat. A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements--called "widespread and monumental" by the New Yorker--forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published

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