Dams, Parks And Politics: Resource Development And Preservation The Truman-Eisenhower Era

Offers 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 programmes for development and preservation of natural resources in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.