RESOURCES: BOOKS AND ARTICLES THAT MAKE THE CONNECTION
BOOKS
I. ABOUT REPUBLICANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich, 2019
The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump
James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg, 2019
Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America’s Wilderness
Thomas G. Smith, a sports and environmental historian, 2006
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party)
Rod Dreher, senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative, 2006
The Greening of Conservative America
John R. E. Bliese, Ph.D., Professor at Texas Tech University, 2002
The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist
Gordon Durnil, former chairman of the Indiana Republican Party and member of the International Joint Commission, 2001
The National Parks Compromised: Pork Barrel Politics and America’s Treasures
James M. Ridenour, former National Parks Service Director under President George H. W. Bush, 1994
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Russell Kirk, 1953
II. ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN GENERAL
Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of a New Republican Party
Julian E. Zelizer, 2020
It Was All a Lie : How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart Stevens, 2020
How the Right Lost Its Mind
Charles Sykes, 2018
When Republicans Were Progressive
David Durenberger, former U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 2018
It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America
Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey, 2006
ARTICLES
2020
Trump’s border wall was a complete waste of time and money, Washington Post editorial
I’m a Conservative Christian Environmentalist. No, That’s Not an Oxymoron. Erika Andersen, New York Times
My Fellow Conservatives Are Out of Touch on the Environment. By abandoning a major issue, my party is hurting itself politically. Tom Ridge (former Governor of Pennsylvania and first head of the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush), The Atlantic
Toward a Conservative Environmentalism, Nate Hochman, The National Review
An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment, Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
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2019
Young Conservatives Want a Voice on the Environment, Benjamin Backer, The Catalyst
When did moral clarity become radical? Nathaniel Rich (author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, 2019), New York Times
The Once Common Republican Environmentalist Is Virtually Extinct, John Nichols, The Nation
The Bipartisan Beginning of the Clean Water Act, Ellen Simon, The Waterkeeper Alliance
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2018
The Term “Republican Environmentalist” Is Not an Oxymoron, William K. Reilly (former EPA Administrator under President George H. W. Bush), Scientific American
Once upon a time… It wasn’t too long ago that “Republican environmentalist” was a thing, Peter Dykstra, Environmental Health News
Don’t Let Anyone Fool You: There ARE Environmental Conservatives. And they’re pissed. Zoya Teirstein, Mother Jones
Wanted: The next great Republican environmental hero. Will the next Teddy Roosevelt or Arnold Schwarzenegger please stand up? Kirk Weinert, Medium.com
A Wake-Up Call for the G.O.P. Mark Sanford (former Congressman and Governor of South Carolina), New York Times
Meet the 20-year-old Republican with an environmental agenda. Nathanael Johnson, Grist
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2017
How Republicans came to embrace anti-environmentalism, Christopher Sellers, Vox
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