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An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist

By John Nichols

Book information

Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Year
2001
ISBN
1571312536, 9781571312532
LCC
PS3564.I274 Z463 2001
Open Library ID
OL3940426M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6256671 bytes)
Pages
194\194
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

John Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself “a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success.” However, a trip to Guatemala derailed his golden-child existence and set him on a very different path toward social and environmental activism. This book charts Nichols’s rich and often tormented journey out of his sheltered middle-class life toward a belief in what he calls “liberation ecology.”

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