First printing. Flat-signed and inscribed by author on half-title page. Dark grey paper boards with light grey text imprinting on spine. Flaws: very light bumping to spine edges and 8 - 10 pages with marginalia and underlines. Otherwise flawless condition. NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ has light bumping to top spine edge and shelf-scuffing to rear panel. Price intact: $28.00.

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Title: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, New Haven, Conn.
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300103905
ISBN 13: 9780300103908
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Over a continent and three centuries, American livestock owners destroyed wolves to protect the beasts that supplied them with food, clothing, mobility, and wealth. The brutality of the campaign soon exceeded wolves’ misdeeds. Wolves menaced property, not people, but storytellers often depicted the animals as ravenous threats to human safety. Subjects of nightmares and legends, wolves fell prey not only to Americans’ thirst for land and resources but also to their deeper anxieties about the untamed frontier.

Now Americans study and protect wolves and jail hunters who shoot them without authorization. Wolves have become the poster beasts of the great American wilderness, and the federal government has paid millions of dollars to reintroduce them to scenic habitats like Yellowstone National Park.

Why did Americans hate wolves for centuries? And, given the ferocity of this loathing, why are Americans now so protective of the animals? In this ambitious history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and then loved them—Jon Coleman investigates a fraught relationship between two species and uncovers striking similarities, deadly differences, and, all too frequently, tragic misunderstanding.

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Jon T. Coleman teaches history at the University of Notre Dame.

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