| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

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Russell E. Train and the Emergence of American Environmentalism. By J. Brooks Flippen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95.

Russell Train's long career as an environmental activist and administrator makes an impressive resume. Born and raised in Georgetown, he became a federal judge who specialized in tax law. Then, in the 1950s, Train discovered an interest in African wildlife and helped found the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation. In 1965, he gave up his judgeship to become president of the Conservation Foundation, a think tank and lobbying entity which sponsored speakers and underwrote a variety of environmental publications. Subsequently, he served on Lyndon Johnson's National Water Commission and other high level environmental task forces. These experiences enabled Train to become an assistant secretary in the Interior Department in the Nixon administration and then chairman of the Council of Environmental Quality from 1970 to 1973. In 1973, Nixon appointed Train head of the Environmental Protection Agency, where he remained through the end of the Ford administration in 1977. That year, he left the federal government and became president of the World Wildlife Fund where he remained until 1994. Along the way, President George H. W. Bush awarded Train the Medal of Freedom, an honor he added to an already impressive list of conservation awards and honorary degrees.

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