Born under a bad sky : notes from the dark side of the Earth

Book

Born under a bad sky : notes from the dark side of the Earth / Jeffrey St. Clair.

Summary:

The final section of Born Under a Bad Sky takes the volume far beyond its muckraking beginnings and underpinnings. In doing so, St. Clair has created a classic narrative of writing that simultaneously includes and transcends the best of the travel and nature writing genres. --from a review.

Record details

ISBN: 9781904859703 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1904859704 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 459 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-439) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Pt. 1. Enter the dragon -- Hogwash -- Crude alliance -- Rockin' the pipeline -- The worst day of Ted Stevens' life -- Cancerous air -- Sweating it out -- Arkansas bloodsuckers -- What a miner's life is worth -- The great green scare -- The scourging of Willie Fontenot -- Pools of fire -- Bad days at Indian Point -- Downwinders be damned -- Nuclear saviors? -- Glow river glow -- The white death in Iraq -- Pt. 2. Way out west -- Dark mesas in an ancient light -- The killing of Leroy Jackson -- Anatomy of a swindle -- Fear and firewood in New Mexico -- Pray to play -- How the west was eaten -- In the realm of the grizzly kings -- Yellowstone, the vision thing -- Fire in the west : a triptych -- The politics of timber theft -- W marks the spot -- Frightening tales of endangered species -- Is the eagle really back? -- Bill Clinton versus the spotted owl -- Recount in the forests -- The bear minimum -- High line fever -- Pt. 3. Politicians and other strangers -- Glory boy and the snail darter -- The nature of Ronald Reagan -- Golden parachutes -- Mining the politics of gold -- Andrus and the bull trout -- The political science of Jack Ward Thomas -- Stephen Breyer and cancer bonds -- Adventures in the endangered skin trade -- A river runs through him -- In through the out door -- Leave it to Leavitt -- Killing salmon with Paul O'Neill -- The rise and fall of Richard Pombo -- Howard's end -- Suicide right on the stage -- Gale Norton in slacks -- Flirtations with disaster -- The green imposter -- Pt. 4. The beautiful and the dammed -- A premature burial -- Going down on the rocks in dinosaur.