Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
- ISBN-10
- 0195306015
- ISBN-13
- 9780195306019
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Neil M. Maher
Description
Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism.
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