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THE LOOTING OF AMERICAHow Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs,Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About ItLes Leopold
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How could the best and brightest in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bailthem out? What caused this mess? And what can Main Street do about it?
In The Looting of America, Les Leopold debunks the prevailing myths that blame low-incomehomebuyers, credit-card debtors, and government interference. Instead, readers will discoverhow Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing a highlylucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance.
He also asks some tough questions:• Why did Americans let the gap between workers’ and executives’ pay grow so large?• Why did we fail to realize that the excess money in those executives’ pockets was fueling
casino-style investment schemes?• Why did we buy the notion that financial products that no one could even understand would
somehow form the backbone of America’s new economy?• And how can we get our money back and never give it away to gamblers again?
In this page-turning, plain-speaking narrative, Leopold tells us how everyone from individualinvestors to school districts to institutions around the world fell victim to Wall Street’s “innovative”financial products—like collateralized debt obligations, better known as CDOs, which sucked trillions of dollars from the global economy when they failed.
As the country teeters on the brink of a depression, he warns we should be especially wary ofadvice from the so-called financial experts who got us here and then conveniently got themselvesout. So far, it appears they’ve won the battle, but The Looting of America refuses to let them writethe history—or plan its aftermath.
Not a Wall Street insider? A guide to the economic crisis for the rest of us.
Les Leopold cofounded and currently directs two nonprofit organi-zations, the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, and is theauthor of the award-winning The Man Who Hated Work andLoved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi. Leopolddesigns research and educational programs on occupational safetyand health, the environment, and economics and helped form analliance between the United Steel Workers Union and the SierraClub. He attended Oberlin College and Princeton University’sWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Helives in Montclair, New Jersey.photo: Lilah Leopold
“Les Leopold’s account of the economic crisis is the clearest and most accessiblethat I have seen. It gives a reader with little economics or financial background ariveting description of how Wall Street tore down our economy and what we cando about it. It’s a page turner we all should read.” —Leo Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers
Chelsea Green JunePolitics & Social Justice
• Pub Date June 2009• $14.95 US, $19.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582056• 53/8 x 83/8 • 240 pages• Politics & Social Justice• World Rights
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HOWARD DEAN’S Prescription for REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs SaferHoward Dean with Igor Volsky and Faiz Shakir
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What would real healthcare reform look like? And howcan everyday Americans trump big money and puthealthcare back on track? Howard Dean speaks out.
Chelsea Green JulyPolitics & Social Justice
Americans have pondered how to reform healthcare since the days of Harry Truman. But formost Americans, little has changed—except that healthcare costs have soared, health insurancecompanies have grown bigger and more oppressive to both doctors and patients, and todayeven those Americans who pay dearly for health insurance frequently find that their policiesdon’t adequately cover them when they need their coverage most.
Something has got to give. In his bold new book, Howard Dean—the physician and formergovernor widely credited for reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections—tellsAmericans what needs to be done to successfully reform healthcare. One key, he writes, is tooffer Americans the option to participate in a public health insurance program, much likeMedicare. “America has had ‘socialized’ medicine since 1964,” says Dean. “It’s called Medicare;it covers every American over 65, and they are very happy with the program. The rest ofAmerica deserves a similar option.”
In this straight-talking guide to overcoming today’s healthcare crisis, Dean spells out:• What Obama’s healthcare plan is all about• How other countries handle healthcare• Which special interests are standing in the way of progress and why• How healthcare reform will help American businesses prosper• Why Americans need choice—between private and public health insurance coverage
Millions of Americans lack health insurance; millions more pay for coverage that doesn’t protectthem from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests.This persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist shows Americans how to take backthe healthcare reins.
Howard Dean—physician and former chairman of the DemocraticNational Committee (DNC)—served six terms as Governor of Vermontbefore running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination inthe 2004 election. Dean also founded Democracy for America (DFA),the grassroots organization that organizes community activists, trainscampaign staff, and endorses progressive candidates. While he wasVermont’s governor, the state expanded its universal healthcare pro-gram to cover nearly every child under age 18—and also lowered itspublic debt, balanced its budget, and reduced taxes.
Faiz Shakir, currently the research director at the Center for American Progress inWashington, D.C., has been a researcher for the Democratic National Committee, a U.S.Senate legislative aide on veterans affairs, and a White House communications aide.
Igor Volsky is a healthcare researcher and blogger at the Center for American Progress.
• Pub Date July 2009• $12.95 US, $14.50 CAN • Paperback• ISBN 9781603582285• 53/8 x 83/8 • 144 pages
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from Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform:Much has been made of the 48 million Americans whodon’t have health insurance. Their stories are heart-rend-ing, and it’s a scandal that in the wealthiest nation onearth, we do not cover everybody. No other industrialdemocracy in the world puts up with this embarrass-ment. But the debate on healthcare reform—which iscoming to a peak once again—should also focus on thefact that many Americans who do have health insurancedon’t find out that it doesn’t adequately cover them untilit is too late.
What’s the real issue?The real issue in the debate over healthcare reform is notwhether we should have “socialized medicine” or not. It’swhether we should continue with an extraordinarilyinefficient system that today features a private insurance
industry that takes large amounts of money out of thehealthcare system for shareholders, administrators, andexecutives, while denying people the basic coverage theyhave paid for.
How to frame the debate.The debate about healthcare reform is not a debateabout how much a role the government should play.Instead, the debate should focus on this simple ques-tion: Should we give Americans under 65 the samechoice we give Americans over 65? Should we give allAmericans a choice of opting out of the private healthinsurance system and benefiting from a public healthinsurance plan? Americans ought to be able to decidefor themselves.
What Americans Should Demand of Real Healthcare Reform.
• Choice: Everyone should be able to choose between a public health insurance option—like Medicare—or a private health insurance option.
• No forced moves: If you like the health insurance coverage you have, you should be able to keep it.
• Coverage options for small business: Very small businesses should have the option of handing over health insurance coverage for their employees to a public or private plan subsidized by the government.
• Everybody in, nobody out: Public and private health insurance plans should turn no one away based on illness, pre-existing conditions, or other criteria.
• Similar premiums for everyone: Despite age or illness, all Americans should be able to opt into a public or private healthcare without wide discrepancies in cost based on age or previous illness.
• More options, not less: Healthcare reform should expand Americans’ healthcare choices, not reduce them.
• Financial protection: A public health insurance option is more affordable because it’s more efficient. This protects families’ financial health.
• Fewer of your healthcare dollars spent on overhead: A public health insurance option is much cheaper to operate and will help reduce non-health-related overhead costs.
• Universality: Everyone other than those already covered by Medicare or Medicaid should have the option to join a public plan.
• Portability: A public health insurance plan should cover you no matter how many times you move, no matter who you work for, and no matter where you live.
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MARIJUANA IS SAFER So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert
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Evidence shows marijuana is safer than alcohol. Yet alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. Isn’t it time for some citizen-led sanity?
Nationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvertcompare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the twodrugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simpleyet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice touse marijuana instead of alcohol?
Marijuana Is Safer reaches for a broad audience. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it pro-vides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a majorpolitical battle, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol mustbe a prominent part of the public debate over legalization.
Most importantly, for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform—or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice—this bookprovides the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments tofriends, family, coworkers, and elected officials.
Chelsea Green SeptemberPolitics & Social Justice
Mason Tvert photo: Lori NagelPaul Armentano photo: Mike Milkovich
• Pub Date September 2009• $14.95 US, $19.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603581448 • 53/8 x 83/8 • 192 pages• Politics & Social Justice • World Rights
Steve Fox is the Director of State Campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the nation’slargest organization dedicated to reforming marijuana laws. From 2002-2005, he lobbiedCongress as MPP’s Director of Government Relations. He cofounded Safer Alternative forEnjoyable Recreation (SAFER) in 2005 and has helped guide its operations since its inception. Heis a graduate of Tufts University and Boston College Law School and currently lives in Marylandwith his wife and two daughters.
Steve Fox photo: Lisa Fox
Mason Tvert is the cofounder and Executive Director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation(SAFER) and the SAFER Voter Education Fund. He appears frequently in the news and travels thecountry promoting the “Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol” message. He resides in Denver, where heserves on the city’s Marijuana Policy Review Panel appointed by Mayor John W. Hickenlooper.
Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML (The National Organization for the Reform ofMarijuana Laws) and the NORML Foundation, is a recognized expert in marijuana policy, health,and pharmacology. He appears regularly on Drew Pinsky’s nationally syndicated radio show, andhis work has appeared in over 500 publications. Armentano is the 2008 recipient of the ProjectCensored Real News Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He currently lives in Vallejo,California, with his wife and son.
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NONTOXIC HOUSECLEANINGAmy Kolb Noyes
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When it comes to cleaning products, society often values convenience over personal and planetaryhealth, thanks to decades of advertising propaganda from the chemical companies that marketoverpriced and dangerous concoctions. But awareness is changing: Not only are homemade andnontoxic cleaners strong enough for the toughest grunge, they are often as convenient as theircommercial counterparts.
Nontoxic Housecleaning—the latest in the Chelsea Green Guides series—provides a way for peopleto improve their immediate environment every day. Pregnant women, parents of young children,pet owners, people with health concerns, and those who simply care about a healthy environ-ment—and a sensible budget—can all benefit from the recipes and tips in this guide.
Included are tips for:• The basic ingredients: what they are, and why they work.• Specific techniques for each room and cleaning need in the house.• Detailed recipes for homemade cleaners, including floor polishes, all-purpose cleanser,
disinfecting cleanser, window cleaner, oven cleaner, furniture polish, mold- and mildew- killing cleansers, bathroom scrub, deodorizers, stain removers, laundry boosters and starch, metal polishes, scouring powder, and more.
A pocket guide for making and using nontoxic cleaning products.
Amy Kolb Noyes lives at Indecision Farm in Vermont and writesfrequently on home and garden topics for a variety of regionaland national publications. An environmental activist, she is vicechair of the nonprofit Green Up Vermont, has long served on itsboard of directors, and has authored Living the Green Up Way.She lives in northern Vermont.
Chelsea Green SeptemberNature & Environment
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Grime Away Appliance CleanerIn an 32 oz spray bottle mix in the given order:
• 1 teaspoon castile soap with an essential oil OR 1 teaspoon unscented castile soap and 8-10 drops of your favorite oil
• 1 teaspoon washing soda • 3 cups warm water • 1 tablespoon vinegar
Shake well to mix before each use.
• Pub Date September 2009• $7.95 US, $10.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582032• 43/4 x 61/2 • 96 pages• Nature & Environment • Green Guides• World Rights
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SUSTAINABLE FOODHow to Buy Right and Spend LessElise McDonough
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Wondering whether it’s worth it to splurge on the locally raised beef? What about those organiccarrots? New in the Chelsea Green Guides series, Sustainable Food: How to Buy Right and SpendLess helps the average shopper navigate the choices, whether strolling the aisles of a modernsupermarket or foraging at a local farmers market.
This down-to-earth, casual guide—small enough to be slipped into your pocket—answers theseand other questions for the shopper:• What are the differences among organic, local, fair-trade, free-range, naturally raised, and
biodynamic foods?• How affordable is it to subscribe to a CSA farm—and what are the advantages?• Is it better to choose wild Alaskan salmon at $18.99, or the Chilean farmed fish at $11.99?• What cooking oils can be sustainably sourced?• How can a food co-op increase access to, and affordability of, healthier, Earth-friendly foods?• Where can you find sustainably produced sugar, and are there any local replacements for
sweeteners from faraway lands?• What do the distinctions between shade-grown and trellised coffee mean?• Is shark okay to eat? How about mackerel? • Why is the war on plastic bags so important?
Sustainable eating just got easier.
A guide to making ethical, budget-friendly, food-buying choices.
Elise McDonough trained at New York City’s Natural GourmetInstitute, but her informal training in counterculture cuisine beganat the Cleveland Food Co-op, where she was initiated into theworld of food politics, strange ingredients, and alternative diets.She lives in New York City, where she volunteers at the UnionSquare Greenmarket, and is actively involved in many local farmand food issues.
Chelsea Green SeptemberFood, Health, & Travel
Try these great tips to get started!
• Fishing for good seafood? Try farmed tilapia, mussels, bay scallops, or wild salmon. (And avoid farmed salmon at all costs.)
• Looking to eat lower on the food chain? Expand your repertoire with polished barley instead of rice, or polenta instead of potatoes.
• Think you can’t afford organic food? Consider subscribing to a CSA farm. Also, buying organic foods in bulk can be more frugal than the overly packaged name-brand alternatives.
• Pub Date September 2009• $7.95 US, $10.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603581417• 43/4 x 61/2 • 96 pages • other info• Food & Health • Green Guides• World Rights
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THE ORGANIC FARMER’S BUSINESS HANDBOOKA Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff—and Making a Profit Richard Wiswall
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Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required isfarming smarter, not harder.
In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make yourvegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit.From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand thejoys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living fromone. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’sown boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learningabout the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, orquit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses.
In this comprehensive business kit, Wiswall covers:• Step-by-step procedures to make your crop production more efficient• Advice on managing employees, farm operations, and office systems• Novel marketing strategies • What to do with your profits: business spending, investing, and planning for retirement
A companion CD offers valuable business tools, including easy-to-use spreadsheets for projectingcash flow, a payroll calculator, comprehensive crop budgets for twenty-four different crops, and tax planners.
Learn the business of running your own profitableorganic farm.
Richard Wiswall started Cate Farm in East Montpelier, Vermont,where he has farmed since 1981. Known for his work on farmprofitability and appropriate business tools, Wiswall consults withother farmers and writes and speaks frequently on organic-farmbusiness issues. To learn more about Wiswall and Cate Farm, visitwww.catefarm.com.
Chelsea Green OctoberGardening & Agriculture
• Pub Date October 2009• $34.95 US, $45.50 CAN • Paper with CD• ISBN 9781603581424• 8 x 10 • 256 pages• Gardening & Agriculture• World Rights
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DEATH & SEXTyler Volk & Dorion Sagan
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On DEATH . . .
What does death have to do with life? In his short, intriguing look at how and why things die,Tyler Volk explains that death is not simply the end of life. Rather, it is an essential step in naturalselection that has long powered evolutionary design. Volk weaves the science of living and dyingin a deft narrative that illustrates how life uses death for more adaptive living. In fact, death hasbeen an exquisite, ever-shifting part of the grand evolutionary story—from life’s simple beginningsnearly four billion years ago to the evolved human culture and consciousness of today; from thesimplicity of bacteria to the complexity of human psychology. Death reveals the connectionsbetween life and death, not as opposites, not even as complements. Volk illuminates death as anorgan of life—rather like wings or fingers, mating behaviors, or thoughts.
. . . and SEX
In Sex, Dorion Sagan takes a delightful, irreverent, and informative gambol through the science,philosophy, and literature of humanity’s most obsessive subject. Have you ever wondered what thepromiscuous behaviors of chimpanzees and the sexual bullying of gorillas tell us about ourselves?Why we lost our hair? What amoebas have to do with desire? Linking evolutionary biology topopular culture, Sex touches on topics ranging from animal genitalia to sperm competition, jeal-ousy’s status as an aphrodisiac, the origins of language, Casanova and music, ovulation andclothes, mother-in-law jokes and alpha females, love and loneliness. A brief, wonderfully enter-taining, highly literate foray into the origins and evolution of sex.
Two books in one cover, Death & Sex unravel and answer some of life’s most fundamental questions.
Two books under one cover deliver a brief, incisive, andentertaining romp through the science of sex and death.
Dorion Sagan is author of numerous articles and twenty-threebooks translated into eleven languages, including Notes from theHolocene: A Brief History of the Future and Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D. Schneider. His writings have appeared inThe New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wired,Smithsonian, The Ecologist, Natural History, and numerous otherpublications. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Tyler Volk is head of the science track in New York University’senvironmental studies program and a professor of biology, with a research emphasis on the global carbon cycle. Volk’s previousbooks include CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest EnvironmentalChallenge; Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind; andGaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth. He lives in New York City.
• Pub Date October 2009• $25.00 US, $32.50 CAN • Hardcover• ISBN 9781603581431• 5 x 8 • 224 pages• Science & Sciencewriters• World Rights
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THE PEOPLE V. BUSHOne Lawyer’s Campaign To Bring the President to Justice and theNational Grassroots Movement She Encountered along the WayCharlotte Dennett
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A bold, ingenious look at how—and when—U.S. citizens might prosecute their former president for crimes committed in office.
Chelsea Green OctoberPolitics & Social Justice
When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White Houseofficials were acting above the law, she did something that surprised even herself. While run-ning for a state attorney general seat, she pledged to prosecute George W. Bush for murder ifelected. She lost the race, but found a nationwide movement—one that continues its quest tohold leaders accountable to U.S. law and preserve a Constitutional presidency.
In The People v. Bush, Dennett recounts her seminal effort to make Bush answerable for sendingtroops to Iraq on false pretenses, introduces readers to a world where the actions of a few canindeed empower the many, and reports on the current state of the movement to hold Bushaccountable for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Dennett’s wild ride through politics began when she read in The Prosecution of George W. Bushfor Murder, by lawyer Vincent Bugliosi, that a state attorney general could prosecute George W.Bush—should one take up the cause. Soon after, Dennett launched her attorney-general race inVermont, signed up Bugliosi as her special prosecutor in the event that she won, and togetherthe two made headlines across Vermont and the nation.
Dennett’s book also explores the tenacity of other Americans who launched grassroots cam-paigns to prosecute or impeach Bush, as well as Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who proposeda Truth Commission.
With these stories and her own, Dennett shows that it’s not just possible but necessary to holdhigher-ups responsible for heinous acts—not out of revenge, but to preserve justice and defendthe Constitution.
Charlotte Dennett, author and attorney, has been practicing law inVermont since 1997 with an emphasis on personal injury litigationand suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act.She’s also been a reporter in the Middle East and is the coauthorwith her husband, Gerard Colby, of Thy Will Be Done—TheConquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism inthe Age of Oil. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Vermont.
“George Bush took America to war in Iraq on a lie, causing incalculable death, horror,and suffering. In this very important and consequential book, Charlotte Dennett, a trueAmerican patriot who has been on the front lines of trying to bring Bush to justice,informs all who care deeply about this country what has to be done so that it neverhappens again.”—Vince Bugliosi, attorney and bestselling author of The Prosecution of George W.Bush for Murder and Helter Skelter
• Pub Date October 2009• $14.95 US, $19.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603582094• 53/8 x 83/8 • 192 pages• Politics & Social Justice• World Rights
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WAITING ON A TRAIN The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service James McCommonsForeword by James Howard Kunstler
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Will America ever get passenger rail back on track?
During the tumultuous year of 2008—when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set rider-ship records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California—journalist JamesMcCommons spent a year on America’s trains, talking to the people who ride and work therails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting ona Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism.
Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, governmentregulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simplequestion: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form oftransportation that made modern life and mobility possible?
Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy govern-ment subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-railsystem. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political andfinancial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads.
While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forwardin America—and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportationsystems. Against the backdrop of the nation’s stimulus program, he explores what it will take tobuild high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realizedin America.
James McCommons has been a journalist for more than twenty-five years and published hundreds of articles in magazines andmajor newspapers. A former senior editor at Organic Gardeningmagazine, he specializes in ecology and travel writing. He grewup in a railroad family and has spent thirty-five years riding trainsin America. He currently teaches journalism and nature writing atNorthern Michigan University and lives in Marquette, Michigan.
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“America once had a passenger railroad system that was the envy of the world.Now we have one that the Bulgarians would be ashamed of. The task of reviving it could not be more important if we wish to keep people moving around this continent-sized nation, especially as the airlines crap out and our system of massHappy Motoring founders on the shoals of ‘peak oil.’ The infrastructure of our railsystem is lying out in the rain waiting to be fixed; the project would put scores ofthousands of people to work at meaningful jobs at all levels; and the fact thatwe’re not even talking about it shows how un-serious we are as a society. Thisbook is one small step toward the giant leap of consciousness necessary to repairour battered country.” —James Howard Kunstler, author of World Made ByHand and The Long Emergency
• Pub Date November 2009• $17.95 US, $23.50 CAN • Paper• ISBN 9781603580649• 6 x 9 • 272 pages• Nature & Environment• World Rights
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