Talking with Thoreau
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Presents conversations between Henry David Thoreau and four present-day distinguished personages to illustrate the timelessness of Thoreau's ideas. Includes talks with David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth; B.F. Skinner, Harvard professor and author of Walden Two; Rosa Parks, mother of modern civil rights; and Elliot Richardson, former U.S. Attorney General. Concludes with Thoreau urging each person to find a life style of one's own and to pursue it.
Copyright
Registered 23Apr75 · MP27820 (Jul-Dec 1975) Copyright holder: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation Production company: Signet Productions, Inc
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