Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wildnerness Movement

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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modem Wilderness Movement. By Paul S. Sutter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xvi + 343 PP. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN 0-295-98219-5.

Reviewed by John Paul Rossi

Paul S. Sutter has written an engaging account of the origins of the "modern wilderness idea" and its role in the creation of the Wilderness Society (1934). The narrative is constructed primarily through intellectual biographies of four of the Society's founders: Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob ...

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