Grant McConnell : Visionary in the Field of Environmental Politics, Strong and Influential Critic of the Dominant Role of Private Interest Groups in American Politics

1937 — September 27, 1993

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Grant McConnell ?37, September 27, 1993, at his home in Bonny Doon, California. He was a distinguished political scientist and an ardent conservationist. After graduating from Reed, Grant was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1938?39 and also studied at Cambridge and Harvard.

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