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Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-1942. By Richard Melzer. (Las Cruces: Yucca Tree, 2000. xii, 308 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-881325-41-5.)
This is a detailed case study of how the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), possibly the most widely admired of all New Deal programs, evolved from concept to practical reality in New Mexico. Based on research in archival materials, agency records, newspapers, relevant historical studies, and oral history inter-views with former CCC members, it documents the details of everyday life in the CCC camps of New Mexico.
Well organized and unpretentious,...