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Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy : the activist who saved nature from the conservationists

Author: Dyan Zaslowsky
Publisher: Athens : University Of Georgia Press, 2010, ©2009.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : Pbk. edView all editions and formats
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"Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names "Joan of Arc" and "hellcat." A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Biography
Named Person: Rosalie Edge; Rosalie Edge
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dyan Zaslowsky
ISBN: 0820336769 9780820336763
OCLC Number: 649320484
Description: xvii, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility: Dyana Z. Furmansky ; with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement.

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A biography of Rosalie Edge (1877-1962), he first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. It draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and  Read more...

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