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Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, xvii+515 pages. ISBN: 9780300073584. $39.00 paper. Richard NL Andrews. 2006.
In one of the best one-volume histories of United States environmental policy that I have read, Richard Andrews' second edition brings his discussion up through the Clinton presidency and into the first George W. Bush term. Like Andrews, I very much think that "today's environmental policies have been strongly shaped ... by past policies and by their historical contexts" (p. xiv). Given this view, I think Andrews and other environmental politics scholars should become more familiar with the work of American political development scholars, such as Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek's 2004 book The Search for American Political Development. While Andrews repeatedly refers to the "pendulum politics" in U.S. environmental policy, I...
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