The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

by Andrew C. Isenberg and James Morton Turner

Book Overview

Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party's tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate change as a "hoax" and seek to dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

In The Republican...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674979974
• ISBN13: 9780674979970
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"