Profiles in Power: The Antinuclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PAST AND PRESENT)

Social Movements Past and Present SeriesSeries Editor: Robert D. BenfordSocial Movements Past and Present offers thorough analyses of the ideas and actions that have changed the ways Americans think and live. Each volume draws on the insights and methodologies of history, sociology, and political science.This volume traces the impact that activists of the antinuclear movement had on the collapse of the nuclear power industry. Provocative profiles of ten people (ranging from grassroots activist to biologist to school teacher) who played roles in the industrys decline and the emergence of alternative energy systems stand as a lesson to readers.