Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century

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Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for quality of life. His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of crucial episodes in the growth of environmentalism-Hetch-Hetchy, the Echo Park Dam, the oil spill at Santa Barbara, Love Canal, and others. A thoughtful tracking of the American environmental sympathies during this century.-Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series.

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A concise, balanced, and readable history of the conservation movement for the last hundred-plus years. -- Katherine E. Gillen * Kliatt *

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Hal K. Rothman is editor of the Environmental History Review and teaches history and public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devils Bargains, about tourism in the twentieth-century American West, received the 1999 Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He has also written The Greening of a Nation, Ill Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again, On Rims and Ridges, and Preserving Different Pasts.