TY - BOOK AU - Rothman, Hal TI - Saving the planet : the American response to the environment in the twentieth century SN - 1-56663-288-9 PY - 2000/// CY - Chicago PB - Ivan R. Dee KW - Environmentalism -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century. Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century. Public opinion -- United States N2 - The author examines American attitudes to the conservation movement including John Muir and the Sierra Club, the policies of Theodore Roosevelt, New Deal projects, atomic testing, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Pau; Ehrlich's Population Bomb, Earth Day, the Alaska Pipeline, the policies of Ronald Reagan, Love Canal, Three Mile Island, and radioactive dumping in Navada ER -