David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, by Tom Turner
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In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000. Frequently compared to John Muir, David Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act, among other key achievements. Tapping his passion for wilderness and for the mountains he scaled in his youth, he was a central figure in the creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore and of the North Cascades and Redwood national parks. In addition, Brower worked tirelessly in successful efforts to keep dams from being built in Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. Tom Turner began working with David Brower in 1968 and remained close to him until Brower’s death. As an insider, Turner creates an intimate portrait of Brower the man and the decisive role he played in the development of the environmental movement. Culling material from Brower’s diaries, notebooks, articles, books, and published interviews, and conducting his own interviews with many of Brower’s admirers, opponents, and colleagues, Turner brings to life one of the movement's most controversial and complex figures.
David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, by Tom Turner- Amazon Sales Rank: #561134 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review "David Brower has slipped into semi-obscurity over the years, but he deserves a place in the pantheon of environmental heroes. . . . Turner brings Brower to life as a charismatic, intensely passionate man who could be as frustrating to his allies as to his adversaries. . . . Anyone who has had the honor of seeing the breathtaking stillness of the Grand Canyon can be thankful for Brower s unreasonable evangelism."--REBECCA TUHUS-DUBROW"Pacific Standard" (01/19/2016)""An exceptionally good biography. . . . a bold and satisfying portrayal of a complex man. If you thought John Muir was the only wildlife grandaddy in the Bay Area, Turner's book will set you straight, enjoyably. . . . Admirably, Turner gathers the octopus of Brower's interests into a cohesive bundle that offers readers an overview of the environmental movement and insight into one of its most intriguing, controversial characters."--Lou Fancher"East Bay Monthly" (01/01/2016)
From the Inside Flap “This is a brilliant, well-rounded biography of a Great American Hero. Never before has the full thrust of David Brower's life been so thoroughly examined.” —Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author of The Wilderness Warrior:Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America “David Brower’s standing as one of the twentieth century’s most significant environmentalists was never in doubt. What this much-needed biography does is place him among the century’s most fascinating characters—one of those rare leaders who could not only envision the future but also conjure it into reality.” —Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club “Tom Turner has written a compelling—and long overdue—biography about one of the earth’s true heroes.” —Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute and author of The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy “As Tom Turner’s book clearly and powerfully conveys, David Brower was a trailblazer. He left a few gashes and scars, but so much of the wilderness and its tall trees stand because of Brower’s own towering courage.” —Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network and Executive Director, Foundation Earth “David Brower was a friend and, more important, is a hero of mine. He was one of the greatest pioneering defenders of the environment—a Rachel Carson of wilderness and biodiversity. This lively and fascinating book tells his story beautifully and is long overdue.” —Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb “With great skill and narrative drive, Turner shows Brower’s crucial role in saving the natural world from dams, logging, mining, and a consumer economy.” —Mark Harvey, author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act “As the father of the modern environmental movement and, more important, a friend of the earth, Brower pushed beyond whatever limit or obstacle presented itself. His vision and will catalyzed the evolution of environmental activism in United States and globally. His life is a testament to the fact that one person can truly make a difference.” —Erich Pica, President, Friends of the Earth
About the Author Tom Turner has worked at the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and Earthjustice. He is the author of Wild by Law; Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature; Justice on Earth; Roadless Rules; and hundreds of articles and op-eds on the environment.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. He inspired us to love wilderness and defend the earth By George Alderson This is the biography of a leader who inspired three generations to love wilderness and defend the earth. Readers who never knew David Brower will meet him here as a vivid character because the author tells the story with rich, engaging detail, and yet without getting bogged down in minutiae. As Bill McKibben writes in his Foreword, David Brower “figured out how to do the hardest thing for any movement leader: capture the attention of a large enough slice of the public to change the American zeitgeist and thus allow a new set of political possibilities.” In the 1950s and 60s Dave led the Sierra Club in its transformation from a California hiking club to an influential national environmental organization. In the 1970s he encouraged Marion Edey to organize the League of Conservation Voters as a political arm of the environmental movement, he founded Friends of the Earth, and he led the expansion of environmental groups on an international scale. (In that era Dave was my boss for 5 years and Tom Turner was a colleague.) David Brower’s heritage is in the multitude of citizens’ groups all over the globe that are mobilizing volunteers to protect wild places and wildlife, clean up the air and water, and reckon with climate change.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Next Best Thing By James L. Linford I encountered David Brower at a critical juncture in my life, just after graduating from Berkeley and beginning my search for an adult vocation. The timing couldn't have been more fortunate. I, like countless others, was changed by meeting Dave, and by the introduction he gave me to a different take on life and work. Although I knew him for just two years in my 20s, now, in my 70's, hardly a month goes by that I don't think about some aspect of his thinking or leadership style that has inspired me. In his new book, Tom Turner reprises Brower's development from a young buck with a bad case of acrophobia who turned himself into a first-class mountaineer, and metamorphosed again into a public intellectual and political organizer with international clout. This book brings Brower back to life for me, and that is no small gift. I would think that reading Turner is the next best thing to meeting Brower himself, for here he is in all his purity and contrariness, his shyness and his brilliance. Turner is so adept a writer and biographer that somebody should get him to write a bio of Steve Jobs--he might just get Jobs, another complicated man, right.In addition to its portrait of this unique man, Turner's book is, as the subtitle suggests, a history of the formative years of the environmental movement. The accounts here of the battles over the Grand Canyon, the California redwoods, the nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon, and the globalization of the environmental movement--all struggles in which the author was deeply involved himself--make this book a must read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A balanced biography of the man who built the environmental movement By Mal Warwick At the corner of Allston Way and Oxford Street in downtown Berkeley, directly across from the campus of the University of California, sits the David Brower Center. Opened in 2009, the Brower Center bills itself as “A center for the environmental movement.” The four-story, Platinum LEED-certified building houses an art gallery, a small auditorium, and some thirty nonprofit organizations, most of them engaged in addressing environmental issues. But who was this man, David Brower? It seems unlikely that more than a fraction of Berkeley residents today could identify him.Who was David Brower?If there is a Berkeley native other than David Brower who has achieved more and had a greater impact on the world, I can’t imagine who that might be, and I’ve lived here for nearly fifty years. Brower died at the age of eighty-eight on the cusp of the twenty-first century. During the decades when he was a prominent figure in the news, he was frequently cited as the voice of the environmental movement, at once its most impassioned and articulate spokesperson and the architect of several influential environmental organizations, chiefly the Sierra Club.Anyone who knew Dave Brower, as I did (slightly), will quickly concede that the man had his faults. Even his long-suffering wife, Anne Hus Brower, was outspoken in acknowledging them. Tom Turner’s new biography, David Brower: The Making of the Environmental Movement, freely describes those faults, even though the author was a long-time associate and friend of his subject. There are some who might claim that the faults outweigh his accomplishments — I’ve met a few such people — but most environmental activists who know of Brower’s career would argue strenuously that that is not the case. David Brower was a genius. He was a seminal figure in the history of humankind’s effort to right our balance with nature. Turner’s biography artfully gives the man his due without sugar-coating the story.A life filled with controversyIn the course of his eighty-eight years, David Brower was a pioneering mountaineer with more than seventy first ascents, a decorated officer in the Tenth Mountain Division of the U.S. Army in World War II, the first executive director of the Sierra Club, the editor and publisher of numerous large-format books extolling nature, founder of Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters, and Earth Island Institute, and the principal subject of an influential book, Encounters With the Archdruid, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction author John McPhee. He is perhaps best known for spearheading the successful, high-profile campaign to save the Grand Canyon — and for having been publicly fired by the Sierra Club board of directors. Turner describes every one of these events in Brower’s life with sensitivity, acknowledging the complaints of Brower’s critics along the way when they were germane.Brower was famously impatient with process. Turner quotes him as saying, “‘Process is that which gets between where you are and where to want to be.'” He was a rule-breaker and resisted authority. At a time when books played a much larger role in forming public opinion than they do today, he devoted much of his time and budget to publishing what he termed “exhibit-format” (large) books that matched world-class photography with elegant prose. Brower’s plans for most of those books met strong resistance from within the Club.As Turner notes, “The Sierra Club had clearly become the publishing arm of the conservation movement; that role would continue and expand as long as Brower was running the show.” Turner credits the books with attracting tens of thousands of new members to the Club. Many thousands of others signed up in response to the full-page ads Brower had placed in the nation’s leading newspapers to publicize the environmental campaigns of the day. He was a pioneer in this practice, working with a San Francisco advertising firm and chiefly with the company’s gifted writer, Jerry Mander. One headline famously asked during the campaign to save the Grand Canyon from two dams proposed to be built there: “SHOULD WE ALSO FLOOD THE SISTINE CHAPEL SO TOURISTS CAN GET NEARER THE CEILING?” The words are probably Mander’s, but the sentiment is entirely consistent with Brower’s devilish sense of humor. In the final analysis, Turner suggests, “Brower’s main role in the Sierra Club and afterward was as nature’s publicist.”About the authorAfter holding a job on his staff at the Sierra Club, Tom Turner worked with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for seventeen years (1969-86), editing its widely read newsletter, Not Man Apart. Since that time he has served as a staff writer and editor for Oakland-based Earthjustice, for which he writes a popular blog. Turner lives in Berkeley.
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