Boys from CCC Company 2759V surveying a thinning area of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, 1933. Time magazine declared that “more continuously” than any other New Deal project, the CCC had the “respect of the foes as well as the friends of Franklin Roosevelt.”
CCC activities included roadside clearing, Boise National Forest, Idaho, 1933.
CCC enrollee planting a tree. Nearly three billion trees were planted on American soil by “the boys” during Roosevelt’s presidency.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Audubon. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” His recent Cronkite won the Sperber Prize for Best Book in Journalism and was a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year. The Great Deluge won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is a member of the Society of American Historians and the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three children.
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ALSO BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom, 1879–1960
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003
The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader
(editor, with Patricia Nelson Limerick)
The Atlantic Charter
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal
FDR and the Creation of the U.N.
(with Townsend Hoopes)
Cronkite
CREDITS
Cover design by Jarrod Taylor
Cover photograph courtesy of Roosevelt’s Little White House/Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites Division
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