Caldwell among ‘American Environmental Leaders’

IU’s Lynton Caldwell is one of 350 men and women who have devoted their lives to studying and debating such questions and each are profiled in American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present, published by ABC-CLIO, the California-based company that focuses on history and social studies resources for scholars, students, teachers and librarians in universities and secondary schools.

Caldwell is a professor emeritus of political science and of public and environmental affairs at IU Bloomington. He began his publishing career in 1944 with The Administrative Theories of Hamilton and Jefferson and helped to author the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, one of the best known and perhaps most significant pieces of national environmental legislation.

American Environmental Leaders profiles scientists who have analyzed how human actions affect nature, as well as poets, landscape architects, presidents, painters, activists, even sanitation engineers, and others who have forever altered how America considers the environment. The two-volume set has won a 2001 Outstanding Academic Title award from CHOICE magazine.