William O. Douglas(1898-1980)1965 "A Wilderness Bill of Rights, First Ed. Signed

Description: William O. Douglas(1898-1980)Associate Justice Supreme Court appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939, longest serving Supreme Court Justice, 1965 First Edition(stated), Book “A Wilderness Bill of Rights” by William O. Douglas, Signed and Inscribed by him on 1st page, Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. William O. Douglas signature consistent with his other online signatures. A brief biography from Wikipedia on author as follows: “William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the U.S. Supreme Court's most liberal justice ever. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, becoming one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. In 1975, Time called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court. He is the longest-serving justice in history, having served for 36 years and 211 days.”“After an itinerant childhood, Douglas attended Whitman College on a scholarship. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1925 and joined the Yale Law School faculty. After serving as the third chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Douglas was successfully nominated to the Supreme Court in 1939, succeeding Justice Louis Brandeis. He was among those seriously considered for the 1944 Democratic vice presidential nominationand was subject to an unsuccessful draft movement prior to the 1948 U.S. presidential election. Douglas served on the Court until his retirement in 1975 and was succeeded by John Paul Stevens. Douglas holds a number of records as a Supreme Court justice, including the most opinions.”“Douglas's notable opinions included Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)—which established the constitutional right to privacy, and was foundational to later cases such as Eisenstadt v. Baird, Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges—Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942), United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.(1948), Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949), Brady v. Maryland(1963), and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966). Douglas also served as an associate justice in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a Supreme Court case that outlawed segregation in American public schools. He wrote notable concurring or dissenting opinions in cases such as Dennis v. United States (1951), United States v. O’Brien (1968), Terry v. Ohio (1968), and Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). He was also known as a strong opponent of the Vietnam War and an ardent advocate of environmentalism.”An excerpt from the natural resources journal on book as follows:“The march of men and machines continues apace into what little is left of America's once great and vast wilderness.' With it comes cut trees, power lines, drained swamps, roads, dams, and a variety of refuse resulting in an almost totally irrevocable change in the land and wildlife. The machines may leave, but the men and scars do not. The net result is less and less wilderness each year. Justice Douglas's redwoods illustration tells the story. From an original 1.9 million acres, we now have 250,000 acres left. At the current pace of 10,000 to 20,000 acres cut per year, all virgin red- wood except the 50,000 acres in parks and preserves will be gone within fifteen years. Secretary of the Interior Udall recently put the broader issue very well when he wrote: "Let us not delude our- selves, or be content with sentimentality or mere words. The time has come when men must choose what kind of permanent relation- ship they want to have with their land and her creatures.”“Certainly, if we are to preserve and conserve the remaining wilderness, the decision to do so must be made soon or the op- portunity will be irrevocably lost. Lawyers have in recent years become particularly active in land use planning; more and more law schools have recognized this involvement as they have added courses entitled variously, "Land Use Controls," "Land Use Regu- lation," or "Land Use Planning.”Handling charge $2.50 for packing material.

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