
BRINK, Wellington
Big Hugh: The Father of Soil Conservation
NY, Macmillan, 1951. A biography of Hugh Bennett, head of the federal Soil Erosion Service and a founder of the Soil Conservation Society of America. With an introduction by Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Early Autumn and founder of the experimental Malabar Farm. Warmly inscribed by the author, Wellington Brink, to a co-worker in 1952. Hugh Bennett was Brink's boss at the renamed Soil Conservation Service. Fine in a very good, lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
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