Evolution of a Columnist

By Edward Flattau

The book chronicles the intellectual journey of Ed Flattau, the only nationally syndicated environmental columnist writing on a continuous basis for American newspapers since the early 1970s'. Through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413403557
• ISBN13: 9781413403558
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

A strongly dedicated and passionate compilation

Evolution Of A Columnist is an anthology the published columns, journal entries, poetry and more of Edward Flattau, and span some 40 years ranging from the 1970s down to the modern day. Short pieces (each only a few pages long) reflect the often biting insights of the only nationally syndicated environmental columnist who has been continually writing for newspaper op-ed pages over the past four decades. A strongly dedicated and passionate compilation that reflects the evolution of environmentalism in America despite severe opposition from business interests, Evolution Of A Columnist (also available in a hardcover edition - 1413403557, $34.99) will prove of especially interest for environmental activists and students of journalism.

Evolution of a Columnist

A brilliant recounting of the national environmental movement's history and how a columnist came of age in his profession. I amfamiliar with Mr. Flattau's columns over many years, and I havealways found him to be a thorough researcher and a very objective observer and reporter. Enjoyed his first book immensely (Tracking the Charlatans) but this is superior!

Evolution of a Columnist

This is a very readable autobiographical account of the writer's personal and professional alertness to the fluctuating political/environmental milieu during the last 40 years. In addition to observations on the passing scene (1960-2003) and numbers of his columns that provide context and direction to some of the most pressing contemporary environmental issues, there are strongly-written, almost novelistic, descriptions of the writer's on-the-scene experiences during the 1968 shootings in Mexico City and the civil disturbance in Washington, D.C. the same year.