Presidents and the American environment

The new nation's public lands : a first century without a national vision

Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley : the idea of preserving the public lands finds cautious presidential sponsors, 1891-1901

Theodore Roosevelt : the conservation crusade welcomes a presidential leader, 1901-1909

William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover : the conservation agenda, 1910s-1920s

Franklin D. Roosevelt : conservation foundations of New Deal leadership, 1930s-1940s

Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy : growing and polluting in boom times, 1940s-1950s

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter : environmentalism arrives, 1960s-1970s

Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton : presidents brown and pale green, 1980s-1990s

George W. Bush and Barack Obama : wobbly leaders, 2000-

Trying again for greener presidents.