Crownfire

by Thomas White

It is the summer of 1960. Bill Pengallen, a young college student, has taken on a summer job working on a fire suppression crew for the U.S. Forest Service in the California mountain town of Truckee, where he meets and becomes friends with Mike Cameron, a pre-Med student. It is the third dries summer in the area’s history, the forest is a tinderbox. An Interstate highway is being thrust through the area, fire danger threatens the livelihood of ranchers and loggers. Tension rides high. Violence threatens to break out at any time, and then the area is swept by one of the most disastrous forest fires in California history to that time. The fire changes the lives of everyone involved--some temporarily, others permanently. This is the story of the events leading up to and involving that monumental event--- ----the Crownfire.

360 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2021

About the author

Thomas I. White is the Inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is Founder and Director of IBECC: The International Business Ethics Case Competition. A resident of Amherst, MA, He also teaches at Mount Holyoke College.

His books can be considered 'applied ethics.' SOCRATES COMES TO WALL STREET challenges the presuppositions about business that led to the 2008 meltdown and that continue to produce ongoing corporate scandals. IN DEFENSE OF DOLPHINS and a number of articles argue against the captivity of cetaceans by the entertainment industry. In connection with his work on dolphins, He is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.

His next book (coming soon) is CONVERSATION ABOUT AMERICA: THE FAUX-G.O.P. ASSAULT ON THE VALUES THAT DEFINE US.

For more detailed information about his writings see: indefenseofdolphins.com, socratescomestowallstreet.com and conversationaboutamerica.com