| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. By Char Miller. (Washington DC: Island Press, 2001. 458 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $28.00.)

Gifford Pinchot, the founder of the U. S. Forest Service and a key domestic advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt, liked to present himself as the founder of the conservation movement. But two of his chief rivals in that movement, John Muir and Charles Sprague Sargent, found him shallow and opportunistic, while more recently Pinchotism has been widely rejected as a narrow utilitarian management of natural resources. This important biography seeks to restore credibility to Pinchot's claims by demonstrating his complex feelings toward the natural world, his concern for environmental justice, and his ability to change with the times. . . .

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