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Title

Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy : the activist who saved nature from the conservationists / Dyana Z. Furmansky ; with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement.

Author

Zaslowsky, Dyan.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• McKibben, Bill
• Clement, Roland C.

Description

xvii, 312 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edges personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names Joan of Arc and hellcat. A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements--called "widespread and monumental" by the New Yorker--forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Edge, Rosalie, 1877-1962
• Geschichte 1930-1960
• Conservationists > United States > Biography
• Suffragists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-297) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Noblest girl -- Wife of Charles Noel Edge -- First awakening -- Amateur and dilettante -- Like a man -- A common scold -- Sweet reasonableness -- M. R. Edge, lessee -- Canadian spy -- Hawk of mercy -- Hellcat -- Implacable.

ISBN

• 9780820333410 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0820333417 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009008551

OCLC

• 276338613
• SCSB-12886241

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library