Sixties Sandstorm

The Fight Over Establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1961-1970

Brian C. Kalt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2001
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-87013-559-0 (ISBN)

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In 1961, Senator Philip Hart of Michigan introduced legislation to add Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes and 77,000 surrounding acres to America's National Park system. The 1600 people who lived in the proposed park area feared not only that the federal government would confiscate their homes, but that a wave of tourists would ensue and destroy their beloved and fragile lands. In response, they organized citizen action groups and fought a nine-year battle against the legislation. This text is not a book about dunes as much as it is about people and their government. It chronicles the public meetings, bills, protests and congressional interactions that led to the signing of the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes Act in 1970. The Dunes park fight is a case study of the politics, the legislative process, citizen response to the expanded role of government in the 1960s, and the rise of the environment movement in America during that decade.

Brian C. Kalt is an a Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law. He was recognized as one of the best legal writers of 2005 by The Green Bag, an entertaining journal of law, which recognizes scholarly creative thought and publishes exemplary legal writing. Kalt was previously an editor on the Yale Law Journal and also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2001
Zusatzinfo	notes, photographs, bibliography
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	260 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-87013-559-7 / 0870135597
ISBN-13	978-0-87013-559-0 / 9780870135590
Zustand	Neuware