An American child supreme : the education of a liberation ecologist

John Nichols was raised by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. He enjoyed a top-notch private school education and at 23 wrote a best-selling novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. At that point, he considered himself “a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success.” However, a trip to Guatemala derailed his golden-child existence and set him on a very different path toward social and environmental activism. This book charts Nichols’s rich and often tormented journey out of his sheltered middle-class life toward a belief in what he calls “liberation ecology.” "John Nichols was raised among naturalists and nurtured by a family as American as the Stars and Stripes. His great (times five) grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence for New York State. Nichols sailed happily through a top-notch private school education and sold his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, a best-seller, at age twenty-three. He considered himself "a child blessed by the culture and fated for delirious success." But then a short trip to Guatemala derailed his life, setting him on a very different path toward radical social and environmental commitment. This book describes a rich and often tormented journey out of a safe middle-class existence toward belief in what Nichols calls "a liberation ecology.""--Jacket "" American Child Supreme......Page 2 John Nichols......Page 110 Bibliography of John Nichols' Work......Page 139 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR "AN AMERICAN CHILD SUPREME......Page 187 WORKS CITED......Page 188 SCOTT SLOVIC......Page 194