Lyndon Johnson, Rural Texas, and the New Deal

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Sarah Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

Sarah Phillips specializes in Twentieth-Century American political history and environmental history. Her book, This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal appears this fall with Cambridge University Press. Her publications include articles in Agricultural History and Environmental History, and anthology chapters on transatlantic agrarian history and on the Franklin Roosevelt presidency. Professor Philips is a former Miller Center fellow in Contemporary History, Public Policy and American Politics.