NY, 1969, stated 1st edition. 206 pp, photos. 'William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. With a term lasting thirty-six years and seven months, he remains the longest-serving justice in the history of the Court, as of 2007. During the 1960s, Douglas became a spokesman for liberal causes, writing a book published in 1969 entitled Points of Rebellion and controversially authoring a piece for 'hippie' publication Evergreen magazine.

 

Douglas also became a key supporter of the fledgling environmental movement, serving on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club from 1960 to 1962 and writing prolifically on his love of the outdoors. He eloquently dissented from the Supreme Court's decision in Sierra Club v. Morton that denied the environmental group standing to sue. Douglas opined that the Court should create a federal rule that would confer standing on environmental objects and recognize environmental groups or persons with intimate contact with the objects to argue on their behalf.

 

Douglas also is credited with saving the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and inspiring the effort to establish the area as a national park; going as far as to challenge the editorial board of the Washington Post to go with him for a walk on the canal after it had published opinions supporting Congress' plan to pave the canal into a road, which convinced the board to change its stance and helped save the park. In 1962, Douglas wrote a glowing review of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring which was included in the widely-read Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

 

The inimitable Justice Douglas visits the Pacific West, and trades his focus on social justice in for a focus on unbounded wilderness. He shows a distinct reverence for the flora and fauna of the Pacific West. Justice William O Douglas has never spoken more passionately for his first love -- the wilderness --than in this book. 'Walking Justice' takes us through Rain Forest of Washington's Olympic Park, Glacier Peak of the Cascades and many more places of unspoiled beauty in the Pacific Northwest.

 

 Hardcover, DJ, Near Fine or Fine.