History of Environmental Politics Since 1945

Samuel P. Hays was University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Wars in the Woods: The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America; Explorations in Environmental History; Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920; and, with Barbara D. Hays, Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985.

Hays has produced a very useful starting point for those interested in surveying environmentalism and the environmental movement in the United States. It is a fine roadmap for a complex set of issues.