An American Child Supreme: The Education of a Liberation Ecologist

by John Nichols

Book Overview

John Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes.

He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself "a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success."

However, a trip to Guatemala derailed his golden-child existence and set him on a very different path toward social and environmental activism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571312536
• ISBN13: 9781571312532
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Praise for An American Child Supreme

LA Times 7/22/01 "Nichols is a God-forsaken mountain of American conflict, spriritual doubt, political duality and gender confusion. Like a pioneer, he keeps lighting out the territory ahead of the rest, gets lost in the desert and comes up the hills....This memoir, this credo, reveals a tender, overprotected rich kid growing up on 600 Long Island acres that had been in his family since the 1700s....Some time after college, his best friends took off for Guatemala, dragged him down for a visit and politicized the hell out of him. That was 1964, and he was 24. It was the best thing and the worst thing that could have happened to John Nichols."Colorado Springs Independent 7/5/01 "Nichols is a masterful storyteller, full of the humor that springs from honesty, and this is one of those books you begin to wish would not end after you've read the first 10 pages."