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Release Date: August 9, 2004

Headline: Expert on U.S. nuclear testing and citizen protests writes history of early activist group, Greenpeace

Summary: Rex Weyler’s book Greenpeace provides an expert’s view of the Hiroshima bomb, U.S. nuclear testing and nuclear research, and citizen action from 1969 to 1979.

Press Release: For expert nuclear testing insight on the 59th anniversary of the United States’ atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima and the subsequent nuclear testing from 1969 to 1979, co-founder of Greenpeace Rex Weyler is available for comment.

Weyler was a participant and early founder of Greenpeace. He reported and photographed the grassroots citizen action days of the organization that became Greenpeace. Rex Weyler is the author of Blood of the Land, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. His photographs and essays have appeared in numerous magazines including the New York Times, The Smithsonian, Rolling Stone and National Geographic.

In Weyler’s latest book, Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (available in September), he takes his reader on the ultimate adventure journey—into the private circle of one of the most intriguing and consequential organizations of the world, Greenpeace. Rex provides the details on everything that transpired from U.S. nuclear bomb testing to the rising concerns for ecological stability, the quest to end the whale and seal hunts and the dynamics of diverging personalities and political agendas.

GREENPEACE by Rex Weyler
Available: September
published by Raincoast Books
1-55192-529-X, $39.95 cloth

Expert on U.S. nuclear testing and citizen protests

To arrange an interview with Rex Weyler, contact:
David Leonard, senior publicist, Raincoast Books, 416-934-9903.

www.raincoast.com/greenpeace
www.rexweyler.com


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David Leonard, senior publicist
Raincoast Books
416-934-9903
info@raincoast.com