| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972. By Paul Charles Milazzo. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 340 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1475-3.)

In this engaging and extensively researched book, Paul Charles Milazzo explores an important theme in the rise of the environmental movement in post-1945 America. He argues powerfully that "unlikely environmentalists" in Congress made an essential and, indeed, pioneering contribution to the structural foundation of the modern managerial and regulatory state. Milazzo's focus on the institution of Congress, its players, and their ideas and influences, in passing laws and setting policy—ultimately symbolized by the 1972 Clean Water Act—is certainly welcome, and this monograph fills a large gap in our understanding of U.S. environmental history.

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