| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History. By Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xviii + 434 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95.

Every magazine in the Southeast includes an annual travel story about the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway, a scenic highway that stretches from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. These effusive articles inevitably refer to a triumphant past, when "proud, but poor" mountain men received needed jobs to build the 469 miles of mountaintop road under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Anne Mitchell Whisnant dispels this comfortable mythology by untangling the complex political jockeying over the fifty-two years that it took to construct the Parkway. "Its creation required the arbitration of many significant disputes over substantial issues across boundaries of power," she writes (p. 4).

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