Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism.(Book review)

Conservative Conservationist: Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism. By J. Brooks Flippen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 278 pp.

Can a conservative be a conservationist? In the politics that surround current environmental problems and the partisan divisiveness that has accumulated in the last twenty years, such a question seems focused on the exception to the rule. Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans, in promoting less government regulation of business, become the natural enemies of aggressive environmental protection, while ...

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