The Last Stand by David Harris

The Last Stand by David Harris

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.

A fourth-generation Californian and legendary antiwar activist, David Harris is a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the New York Times Magazine and the author of eleven books. His essay “My Redwood Confession” is featured in The Once and Future Forest (Heyday/Save the Redwoods League, 2018).

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ISBN 13	9781597144414
ISBN 10	159714441X
Title	The Last Stand
Author	David Harris
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Heyday Books
Year published	2001-12-13
Number of pages	400
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