The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
- ISBN-10
- 0933126115
- ISBN-13
- 9780933126114
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Mountain Press Publishing Company
- Author
- Stan Cohen
Description
The New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the life of every American from the time of his inauguration in 1933 down to the present. There is general agreement that one of the best programs and certainly one that left a remarkable visual legacy of conservation work was the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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