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Gifford Pinchot - Selected Writings (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Gifford Pinchot - Selected Writings (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of
Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early
twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and
the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This
collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and letters reveals a
gifted public figure whose work and thoughts on the environment,
politics, society, and science remain startlingly relevant today. A
learned man and admirably accessible writer, Pinchot showed keen
insight on issues as wide-ranging as the rights of women and
minorities, war, education, Prohibition, agricultural policy, land
use, and the craft of politics. He developed galvanizing arguments
against the unregulated exploitation of natural resources, made a
clear case for thinking globally but acting locally, railed at the
pernicious impact of corporate power on democratic life, and firmly
believed that governments were obligated to enhance public health,
increase economic opportunity, and sustain the land. Pinchot’s
policy accomplishments—including the first clean-water
legislation in Pennsylvania and the nation—speak to his
effectiveness as a communicator and a politician. His observations
on environmental issues were exceptionally prescient, as they
anticipated the dilemmas currently confronting those who shape
environmental public policy. Introduced and annotated by
environmental historian Char Miller, this is the only comprehensive
collection of Pinchot’s writings. Those interested in the history
of conservation, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American
politics, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will find this book
invaluable.
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