Fdr And The Environment

by Woolner, David B.; Henderson, Henry L.

• ISBN13: 9781403968616
• ISBN10: 1403968616
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This extraordinary scholarly work 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.

Author Biography

David Woolner is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Henry L. Henderson is President of Policy Solutions Ltd., an environmental consulting firm based in Chicago, and is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner
Part 1 FDR as Environmentalist	5	(80)
1. Grassroots Democracy: FDR and the Land	7	(12)
John F. Sears
2. The Complex Environmentalist: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Ethos of New Deal Conservation	19	(30)
Brian Black
3. "A Conflux of Desire and Need": Trees, Boy Scouts, and the Roots of Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps	49	(38)
Neil M. Maher
Part 2 Conservation: Wilderness, Agriculture, and the Human Community	85	(68)
4. New Deal Conservation: A View from the Wilderness	87	(20)
Paul Sutter
5. FDR, Hoover, and the New Rural Conservation, 1920-1932	107	(48)
Sarah Phillips
Part 3 Law, Policy, and Planning	153	(66)
6. Rediscovering the New Deal's Environmental Legacy	155	(22)
A. Dan Tarlock
7. FDR's Expansion of Our National Patrimony: A Model for Leadership	177	(4)
John Leshy
8. Referendum on Planning: Imaging River Conservation in the 1938 TVA Hearings	181	(14)
Brian Black
9. "FDR and Environmental Leadership"	195	(24)
James R. Lyons
Part 4 A Usable Past	219	(42)
10. Recovering FDR's Environmental Legacy	221	(24)
Richard N.L. Andrews
11. A New Deal for Nature-And Nature's People	245	(16)
Roger G. Kennedy
Notes on Contributors	261	(4)
Index	265