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"On court days in colonial New England, folks gathered from miles around to listen as local magistrates convened to hear cases. In the abundant records extant from these hearings, we experience the passions and concerns of ordinary people, often in their own words, more than three centuries after the emotion-charged events that brought them to court. Rapaport is a lawyer and historian who, by drawing on these court records, has created an award-winning column for New England Ancestors, the journal of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Some of the twenty-five true stories in The...

Features interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured are inspired by Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising defenders of wilderness. These are mesmerizing stories about how they adapted Abbey's monkeywrenching ideas into a radical blueprint for direct action.