Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index.

How one thing leads to another -- Washington beginnings -- From clerk to judge -- Africa: land of the soul -- First steps for wildlife -- From judge to conservationist -- To interior as under secretary -- The CEQ years -- U.S. environmental leadership -- EPA in the Nixon years -- EPA under Ford -- The last Ford years -- World Wildlife Fund: transition years -- Encounters with three presidents -- Of ostriches and dinosaurs -- WWF around the world -- Education and nature: a global vision -- The eleventh commandment -- Ethics, leadership and the environment. "In Politics, Pollution, and Pandas Russell Train recounts his growing interest in conservation in the 1950s, his remarkable work in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and his subsequent activities on behalf of conservation around the world." "Filled with insightful discussions of and anecdotes about Washington politics, domestic and international environmental affairs, world leaders, and U.S. presidents from Nixon to the Bushes, Politics, Pollution, and Pandas is a behind-the-scenes account of environmental politics as told by one of its master architects."--Jacket.