![]() ![]() In this context, THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG is an effective pedagogical tool in courses dealing with social and political aspects of law, especially courses focusing on analytical concepts of jurisprudence. One could even argue that environmentalism provides the subtext of a novel primarily concerned with the social and psychological dimensions of law. ![]() While prominent, environmentalist themes in the novel are not exhaustive. THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG is, undoubtedly, a novel that leaves the reader with a heightened attention toward the extent of industrialism’s reach into the realm of nature and is highly likely to spark fervor in those passionate about protecting the natural environment. Given the novel’s constant association with and inspiration for the eco-anarchist movement, whose disillusionment with the perceived pandering of the governmental environmental regulatory regime to developmental interests inspire the direct protection of threatened natural areas and interests, such predictions are valid. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Edward Abbey’s THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG, Douglas Brinkley predicted that, “like Rachel Carson’s SILENT SPRING, Abbey’s notorious novel will be savored because of its proactive defense of nature in an era of dangerous hyperindustrialism” (p.xxiv). Reviewed by Darren Botello-Samson, Department of Social Sciences, Pittsburg State University. ![]() New York: Perennial Classics, 2000 (1975). ![]()
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