David Phinney

Powerful and accessible.

Reviewed: 08-14-23

There isn’t a more important topic than how we engage with our deaths, thus how we live our lives. She has written a beautiful and more importantly, useful book on how to be with ourselves and others as we recognize our future or imminent mortality.

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You need to read this book

Reviewed: 08-12-19

This is one of the most important works of narrative journalism I’ve ever read. It’s an honest, introspective and well rounded accounting of what we’ve done with our public lands and wild spaces. The author writes with a cadence that oscillates between grief and venom for what’s been destroyed and who’s to blame for destroying it. The targets of that spite are found with equal opportunity across the spectrum which is a testament to his credibility and how clearly he sees the issues he’s tackling.

10/10 I can’t recommend this enough.

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Had not aged well

Reviewed: 12-20-18

The manner with which he wrote about white supremacist like Randy Weaver and insane racist like Alex Jones minimizes the danger of their beliefs and actions and journalism(?) like this is in part why their ideas have been able to leak into the mainstream. Throughout it felt as though he downplayed the vilest of their beliefs in order to focus on how “kooky” or misunderstood they were. No serious journalist could be proud of this piece of work. If you’re looking for a book on extremist in the US I’d recommend instead Bring the War Home.

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