Published in 1998, Global Greens narrates the story of international environmental groups in world affairs. It examines how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work with the United Nations and other international organizations to promote environmentalist policies and treaties. To understand many of the current foreign policy controversies it is increasingly important to know how international environmental groups are involved.

Global Greens describes in detail NGO activity at some of the most significant UN environmental conferences through the end of the 20th century, including the global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan. Most of the story is serious, but some of it amuses. Inside the Kyoto conference hall, four men disguised as world leaders play soccer with a large inflatable balloon of the planet, activists blanketed the building with propaganda leaflets, and a group of grim-faced individuals stand solemnly around three ice carvings of penguins begging the little creatures to forgive mankind for permitting the global warming that causes them to melt.

As recent news developments have confirmed, environmental groups have been accomplishing–and continue to accomplish–their objectives gradually and under a cloak of secrecy. Few Americans know that nonprofit organizations, staffed by professionals, primarily Americans, and financed by a mix of private and public funds, exercise real power in the conduct of diplomacy and the creation of international policy. A global environmental movement is using international agencies to undermine national self-government, economic freedom, and personal liberty.  Global Greens exposes the behind-the-scenes efforts of this well-funded and ideologically driven force.

James M. Sheehan is an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He specializes in policies concerning international environmental regulation, trade, finance, and foreign aid. Sheehan speaks and writes about such international institutions as the United Nations, World Bank, NAFTA, and the World Trade Organization. He has presented his views on television programs for CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News and America’s Voice. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Times, and Journal of Commerce. He has testified before Congress and is a frequent guest on radio programs across the country, including National Public Radio.

Sheehan holds a Master of Business Administration from Duke University and a BA in international politics from the Catholic University of America.

What They Are Saying:

“Mr. Sheehan does a masterful job of exposing yet another way the U.S. Constitution is undermined at taxpayer expense–by non-governmental organizations acting in concert with the United Nations.”–Hon. Ron Paul, U.S. House of Representatives (R-TX)

“James Sheehan presents the classic libertarian arguments against the international environmental movement. In his zealous attack on environmental organizations, Sheehan misses the boat on almost every subject but the World Bank.”–Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth

“Sheehan meticulously documents how ideological advocacy groups use international organizations and treaties to shape public opinion and policy in this country. His book is a much-needed wake-up call–Americans must thoughtfully but unhesitatingly oppose the agendas of global governance if we are to preserve our system of self-government.”–Alan L. Keyes, former Ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council

As the author says in his preface, Here, There,  & Everywhere is a “grab bag of a book,” containing almost 100 pieces on a multiplicity of subjects. Paul Johnson calls Jay Nordingler “one of the most versatile and pungent writers in America. And Mark Steyn says that this collection is “a virtuoso display.”

In these pages, Nordlinger visits unusual towns, universities–even music camps. He delves into politics, then profiles a number of personalities: George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Naguib Mahfouz, Al Sharpton, Donald Rumsfeld, Rosie O’Donnell, Rodney Dangerfield…. He sends dispatches from Europe–East and West–and the Middle East. He writes on a favorite sport, golf, and a favorite art: music. We meet Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Luciano Pavarotti, Meredith Wilson (the composer of The Music Man), and many others.

The book closes with a selection of personal pieces, involving matters large and small. What we have here is a feast of a book, served in several appetizing courses. Mark Helprin says that reading these pieces is “like opening one present after another.” Rush Limbaugh says that the book is “witty, grabbing, and fun.”

And, out the author, Norman Podhoretz says, “The easy informality of his style never fails to engage and delight, the wide-ranging cultivation it reflects never fails to enlighten, and the energy that propels it never fails to amaze.” Readers are invited to experience this for themselves.

Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review. He contributes pieces on politics, foreign affairs, the arts, and many other subjects. He is music critic for The New Criterion and the New York Sun, as well as for National Review. For National Review Online, he writes a column called “Impromptus.” He has won awards for his work on human rights, in particular. A native Michigander, he lives in New York.

What They Are Saying:

“Jay Nordlinger is one of America’s most versatile and pungent writers. He is at home in geopolitics and sociology, sports and music and literature, and to all these topics he brings an inquiring mind, deep knowledge, and an engaging style. This collection shows him at his wide-ranging best.”–Paul Johnson

“Like all great reporters and essayists, Nordlinger seizes upon the essential details that give a story life in the present and years after. What is most striking about these essays is not their integrity, fearlessness, wit, superb craftsmanship, and the long view they reveal, but that Nordlinger is a man in full. When he writes, ‘For me, the personal transcends the national, historical, and political,’ you know immediately how is portrait of our age has transcended contemporary affairs to read like history. And though always written in pursuit of the enduring and the true, his pieces are so dense in fact and sparkling anecdote that to read them is like opening one present after another. A good man is hard to find: You have found him.”–Mark Helprin

“No matter the subject–and what subject has he not touched upon?–Jay Nordlinger writes like the great conversationalist he is. The easy informality of his style never fails to engage and delight, the wide-ranging cultivation it reflects never fails to enlighten, and the energy that propels it never fails to amaze.”–Norman Podhoretz

“Unlike most of us political pundits, Jay Nordingler has many other strings to his bow. In fact, most of us don’t even have a bow, but Jay does: You’re as likely to find him at Bayreuth or Salzburg as at a political convention. Or at Augusta National. He has what British politicians term a ‘hinterland’–a vast array of interests beyond politics that most normal people call ‘life.’ He writes brilliantly about music, and profoundly about golf, and very perceptively about those strange little linguistic tics that seem to pop up out of nowhere and catch the spirit of the age. For his fans, this long overdue Nordlinger reader is a virtuoso display of his rare versatility, on subjects from Rummy to Rosie, Cuba to comedy, ethnic cleansing in Iraq to ‘erotic vagrancy’ in Hollywood. He is a Jay of all trades and a master of . . . well, almost all (we have a few musical differences).”–Mark Steyn

“Jay Nordlinger is a Renaissance man, and this book proves it. It’s witty, grabbing, and fun. Nordlinger tackles an array of issues, big and small, with rare humor and insight. He also says nice things about me–which counts for a lot. I couldn’t put it down.”–Rush Limbaugh

Florence King is back–in a big, hardcover book that will warm the cockles of every conservative, libertarian, and just-plain-cynical heart.

STET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope’s Corner, 1991 to 2002 lets you relive and relish the unsurpassed prose of one of America’s most heralded writers. Word for word, no one punched with the force of Miss King’s clock-cleaning verbiage! During her National Review tenure, no one but no one better expressed what was on our minds, as Florence derided dunderheads, disemboweled sacred cows, trashed trends, and lampooned the lame-brained. For over a decade her wise words were the proverbial two-by-four that smacked upside the thick and dense heads of busybodies, chin-droolers, feel-gooders, store-greeters, plagiarists, teddy-bear memorializers, whiners, wanna-be victims, crisis-counseling apostles, and many more of society’s more annoying types.

Now all that crackling prose, all that slashing, burning, vim, vigor, and verbal vinegar that made Florence King and “The Misanthrope’s Corner” a must-read has been collected — every single enjoyable, nincompoop-poohing word — in STET, Damnit! This handsome hardcover edition contains 524 pages of 200-proof pure-grain Florence, distilling every word from every column (including the typos we let slip through in the originals!) that the Mother of All Curmudgeons wrote for her revered National Review column. Florence’s back-page masterpieces still resound and reverberate — even a dozen years later, no matter how “dated” the topic, Miss King’s magic still dazzles. Her unorthodox and unexpected take on a sweeping array of subjects — politics, fads, court rulings, murderesses, scandals, recounts, you name it — remains crisp, fresh, insightful, intelligent, engaging, and always entertaining. The prose still snaps — and the terrible swift pen still slashes.

Florence King is the author of numerous books, including Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye, Lump It or Leave It, Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?, and The Florence King Reader. A native of Washington, D.C., Miss King resides in Fredericksburg, VA.

What They Are Saying:

“King expresses her opinion with the subtlety–and effectiveness–of a flamethrower . . . savagely funny.”–Publishers Weekly

“Florence King comes on–as usual–like someone with Tourette’s syndrome at a diplomat’s ball . . . . With the mouth of a truck driver (one givent o protestations of hot flashes: and the mind of a Jesuit, she can write a mean tour de force.” –New York Times

“One of the few contemporary American essayists of sufficient pungency and wit to be always worth reading. . . if what she has is jaundice, would that everyone else could catch it.”–Washington Post

“King is an equal-opportunity vivisector. . . . If anyone or anything has been left out in her works so far, not to worry: The ax will fall in due time.”–Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegraph

“King, who delights in thrusting her stiletto into vulnerable underbellies, is in the first rank of American wits.”–Charlotte Observer

“She gargles neutron bombs for fun, can spit the eye out of a snake. . . packs a wallop as large as her tolerance level is small.”–The Columbus Dispatch

“She writes so well it makes my toes curl.”–Hartford Press

“Know them by the sacred cows they gore. Among satirists, the only writers who really deserve our close attention are those who make people nervous . . . like Florence King.”–Bookpage

Today environmental advocacy groups are mired in Washington politics, bureaucratic infighting, and corrupt insider-dealing. Some green activists fear their movement is losing its vision. But Bonner R. Cohen, a veteran observer of the movement, argues that the problem is the movement’s hardening of vision. Environmental groups are determined to impose their priorities on every segment of society, and they have grown increasingly powerful in Washington and at the United Nations, and influential in corporate boardrooms, in churches, and with the media.

The Green Wave: Environmentalism and Its Consequences describes how activists created an ideology that now dominates public debate–and a movement of nonprofit groups that is well-organized and well funded. Whether the issue is energy exploration or agricultural production, public land use or private property rights, business ethics or government policies, advocates for “the environment” insist that their concerns must always come first. And they usually get their way.

Bonner Cohen’s The Green Wave is must reading. It masterfully exposes the inner workings of the nonprofit groups and foundation philanthropies that set the environmental agenda–and shape our daily lives.

Bonner R. Cohen serves as senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and as senior policy analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. He has written widely on environmental issues for over fifteen years. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Washington Times, and dozens of other newspapers around the country. As a correspondent, he has covered environmental issues around the globe, from Japan, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland to Morocco, Turkey, Bangladesh, Australia, and South Africa. He has also testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and before subcommittees of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, House Resources Committee, and House Judiciary Committee. Cohen received a Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Munich and a B.A. from the University of Georgia.