Gibbons, Boyd

Boyd Gibbons was president of the Johnson Foundation from 1997 to 2006. He was formerly the director of the California Department of Fish and Game, a senior journalist for National Geographic, secretary to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, and deputy undersecretary of the Interior in the Nixon administration. The American Library Association named Wye Island one of the Ten Most Notable Books in 1977. Adam Rome is associate professor of American history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of America...