| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.2

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Book Review

National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century. By Theodore Catton. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006 ix + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $18.95.

National park histories generally follow one of two paths. In the first instance, they situate a park within some larger social, environmental, political, or other context in order to argue broad points. Alternately, they dig into a park to exhume the people, events, and environments that gave the place its unique character. National Park, City Playground clearly falls into the latter category, being a rich history of the genesis and development of a premier American park.

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