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Article: The State Park Movement in America: A Critical Review
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- Environmental History
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- October 1, 2004
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The State Park Movement in America: A Critical Review. By Ney C. Landrum. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xv + 288 pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, index. $44.95.
After a distinguished career as director of Florida's state parks, Ney Landrum has written his valedictory. In doing so, he highlights a gap in the historiography of state parks. Unfortunately this work, as he acknowledges, does little to address this need (although his publisher would have potential readers believe otherwise). Given the dearth of studies of individual parks or park systems, a synthetic history of American state parks would be difficult, even for a practiced historian. Instead, Landrum ...