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Early response to MEC Senior Policy Advisor Dave Dempsey's
latest book, On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 20th
Century, note the book's importance to recording the
Great Lakes' environmental history. Here's what two
Michigan publication editors had to say:
"Now
rides forth a Paul Revere of the Great Lakes-an environmental
patriot and craftsman sounding alarms about 21st century
threats to our majestic ecosystem (a word not in play
in Revere's day).
"Revere
captured 1770s battles on copper engravings. Dave Dempsey
chronicles current battles with skillfully crafted books
that draw on the past for lessons to be heeded by today's
politicians."
-George
Weeks, The Detroit News, April 25, 2004
"Summarizing
a history of the Great Lakes' environmental exploitation
and gradual recovery, and blending in thoughts on the
poetry, folklore, inspiration derived from the Great
Lakes as well as citizen action to preserve them, On
The Brink brings true environmental history to life
in an exciting manner that challenges the reader to
get involved and join the fight to protect a national
treasure."
-Midwest
Book Review, June 7, 2004
"It
is this combined focus that makes Dempsey's new book
as important as his Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise
as a Conservation Leader, published in 200l by the University
of Michigan. On the Brink, new this year from Michigan
State University Press, provides a resilient and expansive
framework on which to hang a growing environmental consciousness-and
conscience-about these five spectacular inland seas."
-Loraine
Anderson, Traverse City Record Eagle, June 13, 2004
MEC Policy Advisor Dave Dempsey's latest book,
On the Brink,
is available from Michigan State University Press
To
order a copy, visit
http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=2210.
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