Moses’s park plan shaped park policy across other US states

Evidence

There was hardly a newspaper in the state, moreover, that did not write an editorial supporting the message. And the praise did not stop at the state’s borders. From all over the country, letters were sent to “Governor Smith, Albany” expressing hopes that the writers’ own states might follow his example. Wrote the chairman of the National Conference on State Parks: “The New York program…will stimulate valuable work in other states…. You are rendering a real service not only to your own state, but to other states of the Union which will have the advantage of following your experience.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 741

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