Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. By Paul Lucier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 426 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89003-1.

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Robert D. Lifset is the Donald Keith Jones Assistant Professor of Honors at the University of Oklahoma. He is currently revising a manuscript on the emergence of environmentalism in postwar America and editing a volume on American energy policy in the 1970s.

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Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890. By Paul Lucier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 426 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-801-89003-1.

Robert D. Lifset June 2010
Business History Review, ,Volume84, Special Issue02, June 2010 pp 373-375
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Robert D. Lifset (2010). Review of Paul Lucier 'Scientists and Swindlers: Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890' Business History Review, 84, pp 373-375. doi:10.1017/S0007680500002683.

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