Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era by Richardson, Elmo

Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154459)

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Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era by Richardson, Elmo

Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era

$25.00
Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era by Richardson, Elmo

Dams, Parks and Politics: Resource Development and Preservation the Truman-Eisenhower Era

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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This book is a chronicle of the myopia and gamesmanship that dominated Americans' understanding of their environment on the eve of the nation's ecology crisis. Based almost entirely on primary sources, Elmo Richardson's study examines the interplay between the national policies and programs for development and preservation of natural resources in the centralist Truman administration and the localist, enterprise-oriented Eisenhower administration. He shows that the decade examined brought about v

Author: Elmo Richardson
ISBN-10: 0813154456
ISBN-13: 9780813154459
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Elmo Richardson
By Elmo Richardson
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Elmo Richardson is the author of The Politics of Conservation: Crusades and Controversies, 1897-1913, and several articles dealing with federal resource programs during the 1930s.

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