1st Edition
Wye Island Insiders, Outsiders, and Change in a Chesapeake Community - Special Reprint Edition
Biography
Boyd Gibbons was president of the Johnson Foundation from 1997 to 2006. He was formerly the director of the California Department of Fish and Game, a senior journalist for National Geographic magazine, Secretary to the President‘s Council on Environmental Quality, and Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in the Nixon Administration. The original edition of Wye Island won the American Library Association‘s Award as one of the 'Ten Most Notable Books in 1977.' Adam Rome is an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, and author of The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
'Gibbons‘s book moves with the grace of a novel.' Business Week 'Should be read by those who care about the future of our communities.' Library Journal 'Wye Island is primarily about people: clammers, crabbers, business executives, storekeepers, land speculators . . . .Gibbons succeeds in portraying the fear shared by the local citizens - and by implication, most Americans - of change.' Smithsonian
