| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945–1970. By Scott Hamilton Dewey. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. x, 321 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-914-0.)

Despite thirty years of federal controls, the air in United States cities is often unhealthy to breathe. Since the Clean Air Act of 1970 the federal government has set national pollution standards, and battles over pollution policy have been centered in Washington, D.C. Scott Hamilton Dewey's study focuses our attention on the years preceding federal intervention (1945–1970) when air pollution policy was a local battle and the federal government stood in the background due to the traditional view that pollution was a state or local problem best handled by local officials. . . .

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