Unlikely environmentalists: Congress and clean water, 1945-1972

Part I. Development. Setting the agenda : John Blatnik and the developmental politics of water pollution control

The solution to pollution is dilution : the 1960 Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources

The education of an entrepreneur : Edmund S. Muskie and the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution

Part II. Systems. Thinking in systems : the rise of professional ecology

From pollution control to environmental quality : the challenge of NEPA

The movement's moment : the challenge of environmentalism

Part III. Synthesis. The strange career of the Corps of Engineers : transforming water pollution control policy

Drafting the Clean Water Act : systems thinking and the "ecologically sound society"

Defending the Clean Water Act : confronting friends and foes.