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Green Voices
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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title Page
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. Philip C. Wander
  3. pp. ix-xlii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy
  3. pp. xliii-xliv
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  1. Introduction: Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental Advocacy
  2. Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy
  3. pp. 1-10
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  1. 1. Coming to Grips with the Size of America’s Environment: Charles Sumner Says Farewell to Montesquieu
  2. Michael J. Hostetler
  3. pp. 11-28
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  1. 2. “I had been crying in the wilderness”: John Muir’s Shifting Sublime Response
  2. Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy
  3. pp. 29-47
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  1. 3. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of Conservation
  2. Leroy G. Dorsey
  3. pp. 48-74
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  1. 4. See America First! The Aesthetics of Environmental Exceptionalism
  2. Anne Marie Todd
  3. pp. 75-92
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  1. 5. A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire: A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold’s “The Farmer as a Conservationist” Address
  2. Melba Hoffer
  3. pp. 93-110
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  1. 6. “Conserving not scenery as much as the human spirit itself”: The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd Olson
  2. C. Brant Short
  3. pp. 111-130
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  1. 7. “What’s wrong with a little emotion?” Margaret E. Murie’s Wilderness Rhetoric
  2. Elizabeth Lawson
  3. pp. 131-152
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  1. 8. Rachel Carson’s War of Words Against Government and Industry: Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific Discourse
  2. Michel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major
  3. pp. 153-173
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  1. 9. Mortification and Moral Equivalents: Jimmy Carter’s Energy Jeremiad and the Limits of Civic Sacrifice
  2. Terence Check
  3. pp. 174-197
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  1. 10. Lois Gibbs’s Rhetoric of Care: Voicing a Relational Ethic of Compassion, Inclusivity, and Community in Response to the Toxic Disaster at Love Canal
  2. Katie L. Gibson
  3. pp. 198-216
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  1. 11. Frank Church’s Natural Place in American Public Address: Light Green Orations That Saved “The River of No Return Wilderness”
  2. Ellen W. Gorsevski
  3. pp. 217-241
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  1. 12. “We will live to piss on their graves”: Edward Abbey, Radical Environmentalism, and the Birth of Earth First!
  2. Derek G. Ross
  3. pp. 242-273
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  1. 13. “I’m angry both as a citizen and a father”: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Melodramatic Discourse on the Environmental Consequences of “Crony Capitalism”
  2. Ross Singer
  3. pp. 274-299
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  1. 14. Ashley Judd’s Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: A Stain on the Conscience of America
  2. Beth M. Waggenspack and Matthew Vandyke
  3. pp. 300-323
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  1. 15. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice: Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and Community
  2. Richard W. Leeman
  3. pp. 324-352
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. pp. 353-358
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 359-370
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  1. Back Cover
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