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Sierra Club president, 1991-1992 : oral history transcript : the club, the Legal Defense Fund, and leadership issues, 1984-1993 / 1997.
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Title:

Sierra Club president, 1991-1992 : oral history transcript: the club, the Legal Defense Fund, and leadership issues, 1984-1993 / 1997
Sierra Club oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Berry, Phillip S., 1937-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Lage, Ann, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Fisher, R. Frederic.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Phillip Berry discusses various legal issues relating to the Sierra Club; financial issues and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, which in 1998 changed its name to the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund (cf. Appendix B); Sierra Club litigation; his role as Club President; and his views of Mike McLoskey, Douglas Wheeler, and David Brower.
Mainly skits by Berry and other humorous pieces satirizing the Sierra Club Board of Directors and relating to David Brower and others. Includes volumes of the facetious publications "Sierra Club Management Reporter" and "Sierra Club Word Service."

Date:

1997 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Wit and humor
Lawyers -- California -- Interviews
Environmental law
Humour
humor
Environmental law
Lawyers
Wit and humor
California
Sierra Club.
Sierra Club. -- Legal Defense Fund.
Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund.
Sierra Club.
Sierra Club. -- Legal Defense Fund
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
McCloskey, J. Michael (John Michael) -- 1934-
Wheeler, Douglas P
Brower, David -- 1912-2000
McCloskey, J. Michael (John Michael) -- 1934-

Note:

Phillip S. Berry ; with an introduction by R. Frederic Fisher ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1993. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of: Sierra Club oral history series.
Pages 29a-29b: restricted until year 2017. Not available for use.
Pages 29a-29b: restricted until year 2017. Not available for use.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1998.020--PIC).

Type:

biography
Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume (ix, 126 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm
1 portfolio

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Classification:

QH76 .B475 1997x
333.7205

Copyright Note:

Pages 29a-29b: restricted until year 2017. Not available for use.
Pages 29a-29b: restricted until year 2017. Not available for use.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Item:

Sierra Club president, 1991-1992 : oral history transcript 1997 : Berry, Phillip S., 1937- : (OCoLC)1085936129