LEADER 03802nam 2200661 450 001 9910822585303321 005 20220414172451.0 010 $a0-231-54131-7 024 7 $a10.7312/wyss16446 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656052 035 $a(EBL)4508918 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16417029 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14823439 035 $a(PQKB)11246730 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4560250 035 $a(DE-B1597)473317 035 $a(OCoLC)948774568 035 $a(OCoLC)979587831 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231541312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4508918 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4560250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11229705 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL928882 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4508918 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11221558 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656052 100 $a20160714h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe man who built the Sierra Club $ea life of David Brower /$fRobert Wyss ; cover design, Archie Ferguson 210 1$aNew York, New York ;$aChichester, [England] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (425 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16446-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tChronology --$tIntroduction --$t1. First Fight --$t2. Mountains --$t3. The Club --$t4. The Lesson --$t5. Wilderness --$t6. Forest --$t7. Parks --$t8. Glen Canyon --$t9. Progress --$t10. Books --$t11. Escalating the Risks --$t12. Grand Canyon --$t13. Losing While Winning --$t14. Diablo and Galápagos --$t15. Conflict --$t16. Campaign --$t17. Echoes --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aDavid Brower (1912-2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force that challenged and stopped federally sponsored projects that would have dammed the Grand Canyon and destroyed hundreds of millions of acres of our nation's wilderness. To admirers, he was tireless, passionate, visionary, and unyielding. To opponents and even some supporters, he was contentious and polarizing.As a young man growing up in Berkeley, California, Brower proved himself a fearless climber of the Sierra Nevada's dangerous peaks. After serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during World War II, he became executive director of the Sierra Club. This uncompromising biography explores Brower's role as steward of the modern environmental movement. His passionate advocacy destroyed lifelong friendships and, at times, threatened his goals. Yet his achievements remain some of the most important triumphs of the conservation movement. What emerges from this unique portrait is a rich and robust profile of a leader who took up the work of John Muir and, along with Rachel Carson, made environmentalism the cause of our time. 606 $aEnvironmentalists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aConservationists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aEnvironmentalists 615 0$aConservationists 676 $a333.72092 700 $aWyss$b Robert$01637814 702 $aFerguson$b Archie 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822585303321 996 $aThe man who built the Sierra Club$93979848 997 $aUNINA