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"A history replete with compromise and capitulation has pushed a once promising and effective political movement to the brink of irrelevance. ""Losing Ground"" unveils the inside stories behind American environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary failures. Mark Dowie, the award-winning journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and on the Ford Pinto, delivers an informative account of the movement many historians and social commentators at one time expected to be the 20th century's most significant."

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Losing Ground is an ambitious and brave book. Mr. Dowie has marshaled an exceptionally broad array of facts and produced a provocative explanation for why a once vibrant social movement is flagging....one of the truly important books on a genuinely American social movement. --Keith Schneider, New York Times Book Review

Perhaps the most interesting environmental book published yet thisyear. -The Washington Times

Losing Ground is an ambitious and brave book. Mr. Dowie hasmarshaled an exceptionally broad array of facts and produced aprovocative explanation for why a once vibrant social movement isflagging....one of the truly important books on a genuinely Americansocial movement. * <i>New York Times Book Review</i> * Perhaps the most interesting environmental book published yet thisyear. * <i>The Washington Times</i> *

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Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.

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