Green Voices

Richard D. Besel is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and coeditor (with Jnan A. Blau) of Performance on Behalf of the Environment. Bernard K. Duffy is Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and coeditor (with Richard W. Leeman) of The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches.

"Overall, Green Voices is a strong collection that will be especially interesting to environmental communication scholars trained in methods of public address and rhetorical criticism … The primary contribution of this collection is that it maps the rhetorical history of the U.S. environmental movement through key case studies and demonstrates the fruitful area of study available to those interested in the urgent environmental advocacy of public speech." — Rhetoric & Public Affairs"The richly researched chapters are written in a scholarly and highly readable format, making this work accessible to a variety of audiences." — CHOICE

• ForewordPhilip C. WanderAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Green Voices in the Swelling Chorus of American Environmental AdvocacyRichard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy1. Coming to Grips with the Size of America’s Environment: Charles Sumner Says Farewell to MontesquieuMichael J. Hostetler2. "I had been crying in the wilderness": John Muir’s Shifting Sublime ResponseRichard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy 3. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Impulses of ConservationLeroy G. Dorsey4. See America First! The Aesthetics of Environmental ExceptionalismAnne Marie Todd5. A Call to Partnership, Health, and Pure Fire: A Vital Vision of the Future in Aldo Leopold's "The Farmer as a Conservationist" AddressMelba Hoffer6. "Conserving not scenery, but the human spirit itself": The Environmental Oratory of Sigurd OlsonC. Brant Short7. "What's wrong with a little emotion?": Margaret E. Murie's Wilderness RhetoricElizabeth Lawson8. Rachel Carson's War of Words against Government and Industry: Challenging the Objectivity of American Scientific DiscourseMichel M. Haigh and Ann Marie Major9. Mortification and Moral Equivalents: Jimmy Carter's Energy Jeremiad and the Limits of Civic SacrificeTerence Check10. Lois Gibb's Rhetoric of Care: Voicing a Relational Ethic of Compassion, Inclusivity, and Community in Response to the Toxic Disaster at Love CanalKatie L. Gibson11. Frank Church's Natural Place in American Public Address: Light Green Orations That Saved "The River of No Return Wilderness"Ellen W. Gorsevski12. "We will live to piss on their graves": Edward Abbey, Radical Environmentalism, and the Birth of Earth First!Derek G. Ross 13. "I'm angry both as a citizen and a father": Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Melodramatic Discourse on the Environmental Consequences of "Crony Capitalism"Ross Singer14. Ashley Judd's Indictment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: A Stain on the Conscience of AmericaBeth M. Waggenspack and Matthew Vandyke 15. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice: Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Issues of Definition and CommunityRichard W. LeemanAbout the ContributorsIndex