FDR and the Environment [Paperback]

This book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word 'environmental' for 'conservation'. Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book will help correct the widely held view that the New Deal is virtually a blank space in the history of modern environmentalism. In fact, the New Deal carried forward and greatly extended the work of the Progressive Conservation Era, and in many ways helped establish the foundation for the modern environmental movement.Foreword; W.Leuchtenburg Introduction; D.B.Woolner & H.L.Henderson FDR as Environmentalist Grassroots Democracy: FDR and the Land; J.F.Sears The Complex Environmentalist; B.Black The Progressive Era Origins of the Civilian Conservation Corps; N.Maher Agriculture and the Human Community - Conservation: Wilderness New Deal Conservation: A View From the Wilderness; P.Sutter FDR, Hoover and the New Rural Conservation, 1920-1932; S.T.Phillips Law, Policy and Planning The New Deal Roots of Modern Environmentalism; A.D.Tarlock FDR's Use of the Antiquities Act; J.Leshy Referendum on Planning: Imagining River Conservation in the 1938 TVA Hearings; B.Black FDR and Environmental Leadership; J.R.Lyons A Usable Past Recovering FDR's Environmental Legacy; R.N.L.Andrews Toward a New Deal for Nature - And Nature's People; R.G.Kennedy

'For those of us who lived through the era of the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the hero of the conservation movement...Never before [this book] has the performance of an administration with respect to the environment been appraised so diligently. This book not only gives us a fresh view of one of the most significant features of the age of Roosevelt, but also informs our understanding of the directions we should pursue in the twenty-first century.' - William Leuchtenberg, from the Foreword

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