Introduction.
I. “THE LAND WAS OURS BEFORE WE WERE THE LAND'S”: FORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC, 1780-1840. 1. James Madison (1751-1836).
The Mischiefs of Faction. 2. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).
An Immensity of Land. A Rising Nation. 3. Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).
The Policy of the General Government Toward the Red Man Is Not Only Liberal, but Generous. 4. George Catlin (1796-1872).
A Nation's Park! 5. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).
The Principle of Association. 6. Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895).
Gone, Gone, Sold and Gone to the Rice Swamp Dank and Lone. Discussion Questions.
II. “GO WEST, YOUNG MAN, GO FORTH INTO THE COUNTRY”: MANIFEST DESTINY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1840-1900. 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
But, Hark! There Is the Whistle of the Locomotive. 8. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903).
The People's Park at Birkenhead. 9. Chief Seattle (1788-1866).
My People Are Ebbing Away Like a Fast-Receding Tide. 10. George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882).
Man Is Everywhere a Disturbing Agent. 11. William Graham Sumner (1840-1910).
Nature [Is] a Hard-Fisted Step-Mother. 12. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
A System of Counties by Drainage Basins. Discussion Questions.
III. “CONSERVATION IS A GREAT MORAL ISSUE”: FROM THE PROGRESSIVE ERA TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1900-1932. 13. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).
There Must Be the Look Ahead. The Property of the Unborn Generations. 14. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946).
Principles of Conservation. 15. John Muir (1849-1914).
Dam Hetch Hetchy! As Well Dam…the People's Cathedrals. 16. Arthur Bentley (1870-1957).
When the Groups Are Adequately Stated, Everything Is Stated. 17. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970).
The Prevention of Industrial Poisoning. 18. John Dewey (1859-1952).
The Eclipse of the Public. 19. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966).
My Fight for Birth Control. Discussion Questions.
IV. “THERE IS NOTHING SO AMERICAN AS OUR NATIONAL PARKS”: THE GREAT DEPRESSION, THE NEW DEAL, AND WORLD WAR II, 1932-1945. 20. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945).
The Splendid Public Purpose.
Sunday Sermon. 21. John Steinbeck (1902-1968).
The Grapes of Wrath. 22. David Lilienthal (1899-1981).
Regional Pillars of Decentralization. 23. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967).
A Change in the Nature of the World. Discussion Questions.
V. “WHAT WAS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY WAS GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS, AND VICE VERSA”: POSTWAR AMERICA, 1945-1961. 24. Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998).
The Truth of the River Is the Grass. 25. Aldo Leopold (1887-1948).
Thinking Like a Mountain. The Land Ethic. 26. Arthur Maass (1917- ) and Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952).
That Amazing American Phenomenon, the Pork Barrel. Adjustment of Group Interests. 27. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ).
The Theory of Consumer Demand. 28. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969).
The Military-Industrial Complex. Discussion Questions.
VI. “FLOWER POWER”: THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IN FULL BLOOM, 1961-1980. 29. Rachel Carson (1907-1964).
It Was a Spring without Voices. 30. Garrett Hardin (1915- ).
Freedom in a Commons Brings Ruin to All. 31. Paul Ehrlich (1932- ).
Population Control Is the Only Answer. 32. Cesar Chavez (1927-1993).
We Are Not Beasts of Burden…We Are Men. 33. Barry Commoner (1917- ).
To Survive, We Must Close the Circle. 34. William O. Douglas (1898-1980).
The Voice of the Inanimate Object Should Not Be Stilled. 35. Vine Deloria, Jr (1933- ).
The American Indian Movement. 36. Tom McCall (1913-1983).
Visit Oregon, but Don't Stay! 37. James Earl Carter (1924- ).
The Energy Crisis Is Real. It Is Worldwide. 38. Theodore J. Lowi (1931- ).
The Whole Universe Is Covered by the EPA's Jurisdiction. Discussion Questions.
VII. “THINGS FALL APART; THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD”: CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGES AND LIBERAL COUNTER-ATTACKS, 1980-2001. 39. Ronald Reagan (1911- ).
The American Sound. 40. Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994).
Faust's Salvation. 41. Robert D. Bullard (1946- ).
No Environmental Justice without Social Justice. 42. Edward O. Wilson (1929- ).
The Age of Restoration. 43. Albert Gore, Jr (1948- ).
It Is Time We Steered by the Stars. 44. Jeffrey Berry (1948- ).
The Power of Environmentalism. Discussion Questions.
Selected Bibliography.