| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. By Mark Harvey. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii, 325 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-295-98532-1.)
Do environmental historians really need yet another biography of a heroic environmentalist? The formula would seem so familiar at this point to have become trite. A lone, invariably white individual—the usual suspects include Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gifford Pinchot, or, in those rare cases where one includes a woman, Rachel Carson—bravely protects nature against the threats posed by a callously capitalist American society. Yet the hero's triumph is never total, leaving later generations to follow in their footsteps in the seemingly endless battle to preserve the environment.	1
In the case of Mark Harvey's graceful study of Howard Zahniser, the answer to that question would seem to be, surprisingly, yes, the pantheon of environmental heroes needs to make room for one more addition. Unlike his better-known counterparts, Zahniser has never before been the subject of a biography, and Harvey has done an admirable job in Wilderness Forever of rescuing Zahniser, the long-time executive secretary of the Wilderness Society and the man largely responsible for the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, from the relative anonymity to which he has been relegated since his death only a few weeks before Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law.	. . .

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