Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today

Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2013. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on half-title. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xxix, [1] 370 p. Illustrations (some in color), Line drawings, black & white. Notes. Bibliography. Index. William Perry Pendley is president and chief legal officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation and has litigated against the United States at the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal courts of appeal. Mr. Pendley is a former Marine officer, Capitol Hill lawyer, and Reagan administration official. In Warriors for the West: Fighting Bureaucrats, Radical Groups, and Liberal Judges on America s Frontier, Mr. Pendley puts human faces on Westerners historic and often precedent-setting fights against environmental laws. He was a captain in the United States Marine Corps. He served as an attorney to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. During the Reagan Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals of the Department of Interior, where he authored President Reagan's National Minerals Policy and Exclusive Economic Zone proclamation.