| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

Environment Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway. By Christopher J. Bosso. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. xix + 194 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00, paper $15.95.

Christopher Bosso has written the definitive study of the evolution of the major national environmental advocacy organizations from their surge (or in some cases their resurgence) in the early 1970s to the present. He argues that, whatever their failings, they have been essential for the success of environmental policy and for the instilling of critical environmental values in the population at large. His greatest interest is not in environment per se but in the political science question of how these organizations (with some crucial exceptions) have managed to survive and prosper over such a long time. His book therefore makes seminal contributions to the study of environmental politics and to the study of social movements and associational behavior and to the study of American political development writ large.

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