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Wilderness Warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley (2010, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060565314

ISBN-139780060565312

eBay Product ID (ePID)79755679

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Book TitleWilderness Warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

Number of Pages960 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Presidents & Heads of State

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorDouglas Brinkley

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight33.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsNo president has been a greater champion of our natural world--especially its wildlife--than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his own champion in Douglas Brinkley's stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape., To understand America, you need to appreciate Teddy Roosevelt. Doug Brinkley brilliantly uses the lens of Roosevelt's love of nature to show why he is so influential, fascinating, and relevant to our own times. This wonderful book is as vibrant as he was., '?The Great Deluge,? captures the human toll of Katrina as graphically as the most vivid newspaper and television accounts? (New York Times Book Review), Douglas Brinkley has brought us an important, deeply researched, compellingly readable and inspiring story. Exactly a century after his Presidency, there could not be a better time to revisit and celebrate T.R.'s unfinished environmental legacy., No president has been a greater champion of our natural world—especially its wildlife—than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his own champion in Douglas Brinkley's stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape., No president has been a greater champion of our natural world-especially its wildlife-than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his own champion in Douglas Brinkley's stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape., "To understand America, you need to appreciate Teddy Roosevelt. Doug Brinkley brilliantly uses the lens of Roosevelt's love of nature to show why he is so influential, fascinating, and relevant to our own times. This wonderful book is as vibrant as he was." -- Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein "No president has been a greater champion of our natural world--especially its wildlife--than Theodore Roosevelt. Now that extraordinary force of nature has his own champion in Douglas Brinkley's stirring account of the man who turned our attention to conservation and the many glories of our American landscape." -- Ken Burns, co-author of The War "What an absolutely perfect match between subject and writer. This is a major contribution to our understanding not only of Roosevelt but of the historic movement to save our wilderness." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals "Douglas Brinkley has brought us an important, deeply researched, compellingly readable and inspiring story. Exactly a century after his Presidency, there could not be a better time to revisit and celebrate T.R.'s unfinished environmental legacy." -- Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage, What an absolutely perfect match between subject and writer. This is a major contribution to our understanding not only of Roosevelt but of the historic movement to save our wilderness.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal973.911092

Synopsis"Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure-an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible energy." -Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals A vast, inspiring, and enormously entertaining book." - New York Times Book Review From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's conservation movement-now approaching its 100th anniversary., From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's conservation movement. In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt's most important legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.

LC Classification NumberE757.B856 2010