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000491460 1001_ $$aForesta, Ronald A.,$$d1944-
000491460 24514 $$aThe land between the lakes :$$ba geography of the forgotten future /$$cRonald A. Foresta.
000491460 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000491460 263__ $$a1312
000491460 264_1 $$aKnoxville :$$bUniv Tennessee Press,$$c2013.
000491460 300__ $$a336 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c24 cm.
000491460 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
000491460 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
000491460 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000491460 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000491460 520__ $$a"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"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000491460 520__ $$a"This is the first full-scale look at LBL, which has been managed by the TVA since its beginning. In part environmental history, this book focuses on public policy issues and the successes and failures of New Deal and then Great Society programs and concentrates fairly intensively on public planning"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000491460 650_0 $$aNatural resources$$zLand Between the Lakes (Ky. and Tenn.)$$xManagement$$xHistory.
000491460 651_0 $$aLand Between the Lakes (Ky. and Tenn.)$$xEnvironmental conditions.
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