Heyday Books
The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods
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9781597144414
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9781597144414
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The Last Stand: The War Between Wall Street and Main Street Over California's Ancient Redwoods
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Sale 8%
This "gripping and informative" (Publishers Weekly) account of financier Charles Hurwitz's takeover of the Pacific Lumber Company (PL) in remote Northern California is as much a story about the struggle for the soul of capitalism as it is about the fight to save the ancient redwoods on the company's lands. For generations the family-owned PL had operated on the banks of the Eel River in Humboldt County under the principle of long-term sustainability over short-term profits: employees were treated respectfully, and no more than seventy percent of old-growth redwoods would be cut in order to give the forest time to reseed. David Harris skillfully combines a journalist's astute eye for detail and an activist's moral outrage with fast-paced, thriller-like writing to chronicle the drastic changes that came to not only a corporation but its employees' entire way of life when the PL was bought out by a Texas-based conglomerate--whose greed-fueled destruction of the redwoods ultimately doomed the enterprise.
| Author: David Harris |
| Publisher: Heyday Books |
| Publication Date: Nov 01, 2001 |
| Number of Pages: 392 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 159714441X |
| ISBN-13: 9781597144414 |
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