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Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest To Save a Troubled Planet Hardcover - 2013
by Wilkinson, Todd, Turner, Ted
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- Good
- first
A highly regarded environmental journalist turns his attention to one of the most compelling personalities in American business. He gives people a new, unexpected lens through which to view a previously unsung hero of conservation and offers prescriptions for the future of conservation.
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Details
- Title Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest To Save a Troubled Planet
- Author Wilkinson, Todd, Turner, Ted
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Lyons Press, Guilford, CT
- Date 2013-04
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0762784431-11-1
- ISBN 9780762784431 / 0762784431
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 8.71 x 5.88 x 1.26 in (22.12 x 14.94 x 3.20 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Studies
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Businesspeople - United States, Environmental responsibility - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012044122
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
View Last Stand's video trailer! You probably recognize his name and face as a late twentieth-century media mogul. But who really is Ted Turner? You may think you know him as the say-anything provocateur. The tactless livewire. Notorious lefty or conservative businessman. Dyed-in-the-wool capitalist. Social progressive. Mouth of the South. Yet there are other sobriquets, more personally meaningful to him: Eco-capitalist. Citizen environmentalist. Anti-nuclear weapons crusader. Humanitarian agitator. Bison baron. Bequeather of land.Last Stand is an exploration of Turner's lesser-known but larger scale other life--his journey as a still-evolving green-minded iconoclast who is pioneering another new path forward in the twenty-first century. It chronicles Turner's emergence as a new hybrid category of philanthropist-eco-humanitarian-capitalist.Last Stand goes behind the scenes into Turner's private life, exploring the man's accomplishments and his motivations, showing the world a fascinating and flawed, fully three-dimensional character. Through Turner's eyes we are asked to consider another way of thinking about the environment, our obligations to help others in need, and the grave challenges threatening the survival of civilization.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/2013, Page 24
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2013, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 02/25/2013, Page 0