| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3

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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement. By Paul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00

Glance at any environmental mailer or promotional brochure that appears in your mailbox and it quickly becomes apparent that modern environmentalists are obsessed with wilderness. For their part, environmental scholars have been no less consumed with understanding how this reverence for wilderness began, expanded, and has affected human society. Much of this scholarship includes the usual cast of characters—right-minded preservationists and wrong-headed developers—weighing the demands of consumer culture against the forces of conservation. Paul Sutter's Driven Wild attempts to expand our understanding of wilderness in America. Pulling back from the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964 by nearly four decades, Sutter anchors his narrative in the often-overlooked interwar period and argues that the campaign for wilderness was not only based on protection of the picturesque, but also on the defense of critical American values. Many wilderness advocates, Sutter believes, were not anti-modernists, but rather individuals who believed that the loss of pristine nature jeopardized the authenticity of the American experience. The shared source for this anxiety was the rise of the automobile.

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