Fighting for the Forest: How FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America
P. O’Connell Pearson
This nonfiction account examines Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal project established during the Great Depression. The Corps employed millions of people without jobs and restored 120 million acres of forest and farmland. It situates the program in 1933, when Roosevelt took office as the United States faced economic collapse and environmental trouble. The book connects employment with large-scale land restoration.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
