Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth

The Final Section Of Born Under A Bad Sky Takes The Volume Far Beyond Its Muckraking Beginnings And Underpinnings. In Doing So, St. Clair Has Created A Classic Narrative Of Writing That Simultaneously Includes And Transcends The Best Of The Travel And Nature Writing Genres. --from A Review. Pt. 1. Enter The Dragon -- Hogwash -- Crude Alliance -- Rockin' The Pipeline -- The Worst Day Of Ted Stevens' Life -- Cancerous Air -- Sweating It Out -- Arkansas Bloodsuckers -- What A Miner's Life Is Worth -- The Great Green Scare -- The Scourging Of Willie Fontenot -- Pools Of Fire -- Bad Days At Indian Point -- Downwinders Be Damned -- Nuclear Saviors? -- Glow River Glow -- The White Death In Iraq -- Pt. 2. Way Out West -- Dark Mesas In An Ancient Light -- The Killing Of Leroy Jackson -- Anatomy Of A Swindle -- Fear And Firewood In New Mexico -- Pray To Play -- How The West Was Eaten -- In The Realm Of The Grizzly Kings -- Yellowstone, The Vision Thing -- Fire In The West : A Triptych -- The Politics Of Timber Theft -- W Marks The Spot -- Frightening Tales Of Endangered Species -- Is The Eagle Really Back? -- Bill Clinton Versus The Spotted Owl -- Recount In The Forests -- The Bear Minimum -- High Line Fever -- Pt. 3. Politicians And Other Strangers -- Glory Boy And The Snail Darter -- The Nature Of Ronald Reagan -- Golden Parachutes -- Mining The Politics Of Gold -- Andrus And The Bull Trout -- The Political Science Of Jack Ward Thomas -- Stephen Breyer And Cancer Bonds -- Adventures In The Endangered Skin Trade -- A River Runs Through Him -- In Through The Out Door -- Leave It To Leavitt -- Killing Salmon With Paul O'neill -- The Rise And Fall Of Richard Pombo -- Howard's End -- Suicide Right On The Stage -- Gale Norton In Slacks -- Flirtations With Disaster -- The Green Imposter -- Pt. 4. The Beautiful And The Dammed -- A Premature Burial -- Going Down On The Rocks In Dinosaur. Jeffrey St. Clair. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 419-439) And Index.