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This book demonstrates that there is much about the New Deal that can be characterized as environmental, once one substitutes the word "environmental" for "conservation." Indeed, the scholarship that is contained within this extraordinary book 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.

DAVID B. WOOLNER is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA and Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York, USA. A specialist on Anglo-American relations during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, he is the editor of FDR, the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 and The Second Quebec Conference Revisited: Waging War, Formulating Peace-Canada, Great Britain, and the United States in 1944-1945. The recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Woolner was na