My guest is Neil M. Maher, author of a book about the Civilian Conservation Corp, and its impact on the nation's environmental movement.

 

                Neil Maher at the Roosevelt Summer Bookfest
                     signing his book "Nature's New Deal"

Neil M. Maher is an associate professor in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches environmental history and political history.  He has published articles in academic journals including the Western Historical Quarterly, Environmental History, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and edited a collection of essays by historians, scientists, and policy analysts titled New Jersey’s Environments: Past, Present, and Future (Rutgers University Press, 2006). He has recently published "Nature’s New Deal:" The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008), which won the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best monograph in conservation history.  He is currently researching and writing a book on the environmental history of the space race during the long 1960s.

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