Karl Hess (1923-1994) was a celebrated civil libertarian whose journalism career and American activism helped define key political movements over three decades.
His son, Karl Hess Jr. (Las Cruces, NM), is a leading global environmentalist and lecturer whose writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reason, and a number of other publications. Working from extensive notes and personal experience, he completed Mostly on the Edge, which was unfinished at the time of his father's death.