Battles of the North Country

"Anzalone skillfully describes complex legal, political, and real estate issues, presenting them as an engaging story of the evolving conflict between environmental protection and development interests."—James C. O'Connell, author of The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth

"Anzalone's strength is a capacity for depicting all sides in the controversy around development clearly and dispassionately and in a broader context of regional economic stagnation and remoteness from centers of entrepreneurial opportunity."—Richard W. Judd, author of Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England

"In this engagingly written book, Anzalone explores the efforts of residents, environmentalists, state officials, and developers to shape the ecology and economy of the Adirondacks. His case studies reveal uncomfortable truths about the economic limitations of recreational development in one of America's most contested and beautiful landscapes."—David Soll, author of Empire of Water: An Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply

"In this excellent history of Adirondack State Park, Jonathan Anzalone sheds important light on this topic . . . argu[ing] that by the interwar period, Adirondackers no longer fought the existence of the park; rather, they battled with Albany bureaucrats and wilderness enthusiasts over park management."—Environmental History

"In this engaging new study of New York's Adirondack State Park, Jonathan D. Anzalone shows how the push and pull of economic development and environmental conservation shaped both the material landscape and the ideas by which it was managed."—Journal of American History

"Anzalone traces the park's development by examining New York newspapers, state reports and documents, and several archives. The result is a thorough analysis of great interest to sport historians."—Journal of Sport History

"Throughout Battles of the North Country Anzalone's writing is accessible and his analysis multidisciplinary and sophisticated."—H-Net Reviews