| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. By Witold Rybczynski. (New York: Scribner, 1999. 480 pp. $28.00, isbn 0-684-82463-9.)

Frederick Law Olmsted was a pack rat whose papers at the Library of Congress include some twenty-four thousand items. Relying heavily on his letters, Witold Rybczynski has written a lively chronicle of Olmsted's life. Laura Wood Roper's FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (1973) remains a richer (and also lively) study. The introductory essays to each volume of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (seven volumes to date, 1977–1997) do a more deft and satisfying job of situating Olmsted in relation to American society and politics at each stage of his remarkable career as a travel writer, social critic, public administrator, and landscape architect. . . .

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