Don't breathe the air: air pollution and U.S. environmental politics, 1945-1970

Introduction

Recurring cycles: a brief history of air pollution and control efforts in Britain and the United States before 1945

Trouble in paradise: the discovery of smog

Smog town vs. the motor city: taming the automobile

Folklore: the public confronts smog

Reinventing the wheel: air pollution control policy in New York City, 1945-70

A fight to the finish: the publics crusade against air pollution

Jersey: the interstate dilemma

The fickle finger of phosphate: industrial air pollution in rural central Florida

Conference, conciliation, and persuasion: public anger, official inaction

The perils of federalism: the intrastate dilemma

The three-thousand-mile-long sewer: air pollution as a national problem.