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| Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World | 
| Author: Rex Weyler
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 112385
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 2.1
ISBN: 1594861064
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.720601
EAN: 9781594861062
ASIN: 1594861064
Publication Date: October 6, 2004
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Product Description
Greenpeace: The Inside Story is the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the human drama behind the creation of the world's largest direct-action environmental group. Greenpeace founder and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rex Weyler brings us the amazing story of an idea that changed the world, and the adventures, clashes, pitfalls and heroics of the people who fought for it.
The book reveals the roots of ecology and the influence on Greenpeace of legends such as Gandhi, Einstein, Rachel Carson, and Martin Luther King Jr. The story is enhanced through cameo appearances by the CIA, Allen Ginsberg, Bonnie Raitt, Brigitte Bardot, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Pope Paul VI, Courtney Love, and Richard Nixon.
Greenpeace has 4.5 million dues-paying members around the world, and many millions more supporters.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Greenpeaceugenics January 19, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'll be honest.I tried to read parts of this trash-book on an internet site.
Pure trash-book.Eugenics now, is called ecology.
How a group of bigots and eugenicists disguised as nature's friends, got support from massive numbers.Here in Brazil, a brazilian told, about thirty years ago:I respect the dumbs, because they are eternal, and I'm not.
 Lively and Entertaining June 25, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved this book! The pace never dropped into a boggy, dry account but integrated the adventure of being on board a ship chasing whalers with the political history of the group. The issues are explained, in case you missed out on the 1940 to 1980 time period, as I did. Very educational, but never boring. Wonderful!
Great, Wonderful, Spectacular December 7, 2004
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Please consider reading this book. It has changed many people in their views on environmental policy and activism. it has a good analysis and report on how Greenpeace has affected our lives and the benefits of their active roles. Buy it. Its certainly worth the price. I encourage you to also partake in any environmental activism. Environmental information can be found on Greenpeace's website. www.greenpeace.org
Superb October 10, 2004
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book is a dazzling feat of impassioned storytelling. Weyler conjures the feel of an entire era -- sketching the disparate ideas, the hair-raising events, and the motley crew of inspired eccentrics who precipitated a wild metamorphosis in the collective mindscape. Indeed, his evocation of the visionary fire of these activists -- recounting their personal confusions along with their crazy courage on behalf of a more-than-human world -- may serve as a wake-up jolt to an environmental movement that has today become painfully complacent. And it's a damn good yarn, to boot."
No trees were cut down for this book! October 9, 2004
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I love the fact that this book was printed on forest friendly paper. If more books were made like this we'd have more homes for the wild animals.
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