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

By Elmo Richardson

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813154456
• ISBN13: 9780813154459
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher