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Article Excerpt
Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ix + 281 pages. ISBN 9780295985978, $35.00 cloth. Karl Brooks. 2006.
In the red-versus-blue maps of recent electoral politics, one of the reddest, most Republican states is not in the southern Bible Belt, but Idaho. Those who wish to understand the success, strength, and environmental effects of conservative ideology and mobilization would do well to read Karl Brooks' (2006) Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy, a history of a forgotten conflict over a never-built dam on the border of this too-often-ignored state. It proves to be an eye-opening window into the history, strategies, appeal, and practical environmental effects of the late twentieth century conservative resurgence. Brooks shows convincingly that in the early postwar period, a light for private rather than federal development of a major Western river was linked to a wide grassroots mobilization that...
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