Nature's New Deal
Nature's New Deal

Author: Neil M. Maher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0195306015

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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.

Creating The Countryside
Creating The Countryside

Author: Melanie Dupuis

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781439901458

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People active in regional environmental crises discuss the destruction, conservation, and creation of the countryside.

The Politics of Upheaval
The Politics of Upheaval

Author: Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9780618340873

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The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent concluding years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. A measure of economic recovery revived political conflict and emboldened FDR's critics to denounce "that man in the White house." To his left were demagogues -- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and Dr. Townsend. To his right were the champions of the old order -- ex-president Herbert Hoover, the American Liberty League, and the august Supreme Court. For a time, the New Deal seemed to lose its momentum. But in 1935 FDR rallied and produced a legislative record even more impressive than the Hundred Days of 1933 -- a set of statutes that transformed the social and economic landscape of American life. In 1936 FDR coasted to reelection on a landslide. Schlesinger has his usual touch with colorful personalities and draws a warmly sympathetic portrait of Alf M. Landon, the Republican candidate of 1936.