The land between the lakes [electronic resource] : a geography of the forgotten future First Edition

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서명/저자사항	The land between the lakes [electronic resource]: a geography of the forgotten future / Ronald A. Foresta.
개인저자	Foresta, Ronald A., 1944-.
판사항	First Edition.
발행사항	Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, [2013].
형태사항	1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, maps.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Foresta, Ronald A., 1944- Land between the lakes. First Edition 9781572338630
ISBN	9781621900207 (electronic bk.) 1621900207 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-327) and index.
요약	"Between Barkley and Kentucky Lakes--two great, artificial bodies of water in western Tennessee and western Kentucky--lies a wooded land that looks from above like the flattened thumb of a green giant. Once a land of marginal farms and small settlements, this 240-square-mile peninsula, known as the Land Between the Lakes, has been a national recreation area for the last half-century. Its rolling, wooded hills and open bottomlands give the place charm but little majesty. The place swallows up its few campgrounds and visitors they attracts, creating a vacuous tranquility. In this volume, Foresta explores how this forgotten and bypassed region became a national recreation area. He uses its history to retrieve our old attitudes toward nature, progress, and personal development. He also uses its history to retrieve a vision of the future that rallied idealists, intellectuals, and even public officials to its banner. In the early 1960s, the Tennessee Valley Authority set out to create a great park for posterity at the Land Between the Lakes. The park was to host the vast stretches of leisure that wealthy, secure, and more equal Americans of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries would have at their disposal. It would be a place where such Americans could turn that leisure into happiness, psychic well-being, and strength of character. The TVA cleared the land of its inhabitants to create the park, removing people from their homes and severing their roots, thus effacing the history of the place. It then set about reshaping the land in the image of an anticipated future. But when that future never arrived, managers struggled to fit the place to the America that actually came into being. In the end they failed, leaving the Land Between the Lakes enveloped in a haunting sense of emptiness. A deft blend of environmental history, geography, politics, and cultural history, Land Between the Lakes demonstrates both the idealism of mid-twentieth-century planners and how quickly such idealism can fall out of alignment with the flow of history. In so doing it explores a forgotten vision of the future that was in many ways more appealing than the present that came into being in its place"--
요약	"This is the first full-scale look at LBL, which has been managed by the TVA since its beginning. In part environmental history, this book focuses on public policy issues and the successes and failures of New Deal and then Great Society programs and concentrates fairly intensively on public planning"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	Land Between the Lakes (Ky. and Tenn.) --Environmental conditions.
일반주제명	Natural resources --Land Between the Lakes (Ky. and Tenn.) --Management --History. NATURE / General. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General.
분류기호(DDC)	333.780976979
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