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| Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement | 
| Author: Susan Zakin
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 572678
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 483
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0816521859
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.70570973
EAN: 9780816521852
ASIN: 0816521859
Publication Date: February 2002
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Condition: MINOR WEAR TO COVER..HAS UNDERLINES ON 1/8 OF BOOK...NO TEARS ....PGS TIGHT..
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Coyotes and Town Dogs November 29, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good history of Earth First! before they got taken over by politically correct left coast weenies. Earth First! was very cool back in the day and they got things done without compromise when mainstream conservation groups couldn't or wouldn't. Lots of interesting stuff on Dave Foreman and other well known Earth Firsters as well as other environmental groups and activists, plus info on the Judi Barr bombing as well as the FBI's methods of infiltration when they targetted Dave Foreman in their failed attempt to put him away.
Pull up some survey stakes, drink a beer, and read this book October 1, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Zakin spins an entertaining story of the rise and ultimate fall from grace of one of the most influential environmental organizations of our time. The book emphasis is clearly on Foreman and his cronies and their hard-drinking, take-no-prisoner stand on protecting wilderness. If you're interested in a detailed look inside the personalities that created and shaped Earth First!, then this is your book.
Provides the Big Wilderness Picture February 22, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
One half of the content of this book is a worthwile, concise history of the western U.S. wilderness preservation movement covering the last half of the 20th century. It is required reading for anyone with an interest -- or a motive ;>) As for the rest of the content, concerning Zakin's treatment of Foreman and as to her patronizing of Foreman (concerns raised here by previous critics), I don't know. I guess you had to have been there. But Foreman and EarthFirst! are mentioned only briefly before page 186 (of 443) and only so as to frame the history that portends Foreman's founding of EarthFirst! So, I would have to say that this history is relatively unbiased especailly given it's subject. After three years of trying to get the big picture of the entire history of contemporary wilderness advocacy, I have finally found it here. Really worthwile and entertaining.
 Needs better research May 11, 2001
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am mentioned in this book as Dave's friend "Mike". I just wish the author had interviewed me, then she would have gotten the story right about Dave's leaving the Marines. When Dave decided the Marines weren't for him, he came back to Albuquerque and called me first. The story in the book and the story of what really happened are different. Similar but different. It makes me wonder about the authenticity of the rest of the book
 Historic review of U.S. "no compromise" environmentalism December 15, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you want to know just how far the conservation movement has come in the US in the last 30 years, read this book. Susan Zakin tells it like it is, not bowing to the PC concerns of her enemies. Detailing the horrid compromising ways of large environmental organizations and government that pushed cutting-edge activists to lead by example in "no compromise in defense of mother earth." Some new age Earth First!ers hate this book. That's a good reason to read it. Great high-powered & entertaining writing style. Well researched. This book will teach, get you pissed off, and push you to become more radical. One of the top conservation books of the last decade.
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