Greenspeak: Fifty Years of Environmental Muckraking & Advocacy. (Reviews).Greenspeak: Fifty Years of Environmental Muckraking muck·rake intr.v. muck·raked, muck·rak·ing, muck·rakes To search for and expose misconduct in public life. [From the man with the muckrake, & Advocacy, by Michael Frame. $21.95, University of Tennessee Press The University of Tennessee Press (or UT Press), founded in 1940, is a university press that is part of the University of Tennessee. External link
The title of this book says it all. Mike Frome has assembled more than 30 speeches he gave over the last 40 years in which he addresses just about every major conservation issue of the 20th century. Here is the astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, record of a freelance journalist who challenged the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. and the complacency of leaders in industry, public agencies, and environmental-conservation organizations. Frame knew just about every conservation leader of the past 50 years, as evidenced by those who invited him to speak. Few agreed with him on every issue, but none could deny his commitment to environmental conservation as the major national issue of his time. A brief preface to each speech sets the historical context leading up to the event and provides a glimpse into Frome's life. He avoids autobiography, but readers will discover the newspaperman, author, columnist, and educator as a tireless crusader who has touched the lives of many. Long-time American Forests readers will remember his controversial column. Few commentators on conservation have stirred up as much debate among conservation leaders and the public that bad an interest in forestry. Frome elevated "muckraker muckraker Any of a group of U.S. writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé literature. The term, first used derisively, originated in an allusion Theodore Roosevelt made in 1906 to a passage in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress about a man with a muckrake " to an honorable, essential vocation. |
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