James P Hill

Broschiertes Buch

The Gitche Gumee Diaries

The Secrets of Velvet LeBlanc

Beschreibung

The Gitche Gumee Diaries is the third in a trilogy of books dealing with the spiritual and political journey of a First American woman from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who uncovers a decades-old environmental mystery surrounding the contamination of the largest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior, which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dubbed Gitche Gumee in his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. The protagonist, Velvet LeBlanc, is an environmental activist who eventually is elected to Congress. The trilogy begins with her upbringing and the tragedies she faced running for and winning election to the U.S. Congress, where she plays a pivotal role in determining the next President of the United States in the hotly contested 2024 Presidential election. The second novel traces her political battle in Congress when she uncovers a major military scandal involving the dumping of radioactive waste into Lake Superior. This third novel traces her attempt to seek Congressional and Presidential support to remove the existential threat that the radioactive waste poses to the Lake and the price she pays for her persistence. It exposes her secret thoughts in her diary about her spiritually driven mission, the First American culture she seeks to protect, and the previously unknown tragedies and threats she faced as she seeks to protect her beloved Gitch Gumee.

Autor

Dr. Hill is a retired university professor, having taught law and political science over a period of four decades. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate and U.S, House of Representatives and as a political consultant on numerous federal election campaigns. His primary research interest is the Great Lakes, and he has served as a gubernatorial appointed Commissioner on the Michigan Department of Natural Resources which oversees the state's water resources, He hold degrees from Michigan State University (B.A. and Ph.D), University of Michigan (J.D.), and Harvard University (MPA). He was born and spent his early years in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula and currently lives with his wife in Geneva, Illinois

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9798350968194
• Artikelnr.: 72147044