My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver (Environmental History and the American South)
“Hersey looks at Carver’s life and contribution from the perspective of  his interest in the environment and conservation, love of nature, and  desire to help poor black farmers preserve farmland and make sustainable  livings . . . Because of Carver’s close associations with poor black  tenant farmers, his work and research reveal as much about their lives  and struggles in a deeply racist agricultural system as they do about  his vision of land conservation and his contributions to the broad  context of the ecology movement.”—Booklist