Loving nature, fearing the state : environmentalism and antigovernment politics before Reagan /
Brian Allen Drake ; foreword by William Cronon.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.
- Weyerhaeuser environment books .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Nature's Strange Bedfellows -- Arizona Portraits: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part I -- Precious Bodily Fluids: Fluoridation, Environmentalism, and Antistatism -- The Environmental Conscience of a Conservative: The Natural World of Barry Goldwater, Part II -- Tending Nature with the Invisible Hand: The Free-Market Environmentalists -- Like a Scarlet Thread: Into the Political Wilderness with Edward Abbey -- Epilogue: The Fading Green Elephant; Or, the Decline of Antistatist Environmentalism -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Environmentalism--History.--United States Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States. Environmental policy--History.--United States Radicalism--United States. Right and left (Political science) Ideology--United States.