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Landscaping Democracy: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Power of Public Parks - Justin Martin. Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted, Abolitionist, Conservationist, and Designer of Central Park. Cambridge, MA: De Capo, 2011. xiv + 461 pp. $30 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-306-81881-3.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Nancy C. Unger
Nancy C. Unger*
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Santa Clara University
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 137 - 139
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2013

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1 My review of this book, with an emphasis on Martin's presentation of Olmsted's mental health issues, appears in Clio's Psyche 18 (Dec. 2011): 339–42.