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The Greatest Beach is a superb account of the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore and makes a valuable contribution to the history of national parks.--Rolf Diamant, former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Ethan Carr's The Greatest Beach is a fascinating layered history of the cultural landscape. The book provides a detailed examination, expertly researched, of the planning and design of a national park that needed to balance strongly competing interests, hopes and fears in a long-inhabited and storied place. . . . The Greatest Beach is an important and poignant reminder for our troubled times and how America's past genius for compromise can create ground-shifting and Earth-saving federal legislation.--Julia Blakely Smithsonian Magazine The Greatest Beach is a superb account of the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore and makes a valuable contribution to the history of national parks.--Rolf Diamant former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

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ETHAN CARR, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an international authority on America's public landscapes. He is the author of Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma. He is also the editor of Public Nature: Scenery, History, and Park Design and of volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, and LALH series editor of Designing the American Park.

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