With distance in his eyes : the environmental life and legacy of Stewart Udall / Scott Raymond Einberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einberger, Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Udall, Stewart L.

Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Reformers.

United States.

Conservationists--United States--Biography.

Conservationists.

Environmentalists--United States--Biography.

Environmentalists.

Reformers--United States--Biography.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Environmental life and legacy of Stewart Udall

Place of Publication:

Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and outdoor recreation opportunity creation as Stewart Udall. A progressive Mormon raised in rural Arizona, Udall served in the presidential cabinets of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1961-1969. During these eight years, he established dozens of new national park units and national wildlife refuges, wrote the Endangered Species Preservation Act, lobbied for unpolluted water, and offered ways to beautify urban spaces and bring the impoverished out of poverty. Later in life, he offered sound solutions for a society obsessed with oil. In a day and age of partisan politics, poor congressional approval ratings, global warming and climate change, what can we learn from this farsighted individual? In this book - the first environmental biography of Stewart Udall - environmental historian and public lands enthusiast Scott Einberger chronicles the writings, sayings, and doings of a highly important conservationist and environmentalist. Intimate moments including Udall's learning of the Kennedy assassination, his push for civil rights for African Americans, his warnings about global warming 50 years prior to Al Gore's Nobel Prize film, and his meeting in the U.S.S.R. with Nikita Khrushchev - the first Kennedy cabinet member to do so - are also shared."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Udall's formative years (1920-1960)

Early years

Congressman

Udall as U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1961-1969)

First days at the Interior Department

Expanding the National Park System in the U.S. West

National Park System in the U.S. East

Protecting wildlife and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System

Transitioning the Bureau of Land Management to multiple use

Establishing wild rivers and supporting reclamation

Exercising caution with oil, gas, and mineral development

Pushing for the Wilderness Act

Revitalizing the urban environment and stabilizing human population

Controversies of the Interior Secretary

Final days in office

Udall's life after politics (1970-2010)

Lobbying for energy conservation

Defending Navajo uranium miners

Climate change activist and historian

Conclusion

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Einberger, Scott. With distance in his eyes.

ISBN:

9781943859627

1943859620

OCLC:

1002302976