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On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the most significant demonstration in history, and it forever changed the region’s politics agenda. More than 1 billion people now participate in annual Globe Day activities.
The relatively simple idea—per day reserve to focus on safeguarding our natural environment—was the brainchild of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. It completed, significantly beyond his anticipations, his lifelong goal of putting the surroundings onto the region’s and the world’s politics agendas.
The life of Nelson, a small-town young man who discovered his ideals and progressive politics principles young, is woven through the politics background of the twentieth century. Nelson’s account intersects at times with Fighting Bob La Follette, Joe McCarthy, and Bill Proxmire in Wisconsin, and with George McGovern, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Russell Long, Walter Mondale, John F. Kennedy, while others on the national scene. Victor, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Award, University or college of Wisconsin Press
