Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma

"an intelligent and level-headed look at the great promise and the great problems associated with the Park Service's Mission 66 program." (Ken Burns, filmmaker)

Winner Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians

Winner J. B. Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies

In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimi...