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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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Overview
Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.
Publishers Description
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. Tracing the role that nature played in Roosevelt's storied career, Brinkley brilliantly analyzes the influence that the works of John James Audubon and Charles Darwin had on the young man who would become our twenty-sixth president. With descriptive flair, the author illuminates Roosevelt's bird watching in the Adirondacks, wildlife obsession in Yellowstone, hikes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, ranching in the Dakota Territory, hunting in the Big Horn Mountains, and outdoor romps through Idaho and Wyoming. He also profiles Roosevelt's incredible circle of naturalist friends, including the Catskills poet John Burroughs, Boone and Crockett Club cofounder George Bird Grinnell, forestry zealot Gifford Pinchot, buffalo breeder William Hornaday, Sierra Club founder John Muir, U.S. Biological Survey wizard C. Hart Merriam, Oregon Audubon Society founder William L. Finley, and pelican protector Paul Kroegel, among many others. He brings to life hilarious anecdotes of wild-pig hunting in Texas and badger saving in Kansas, wolf catching in Oklahoma and grouse flushing in Iowa. Even the story of the teddy bear gets its definitive treatment. Destined to become a classic, this extraordinary and timeless biography offers a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt's naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever. Raising a Paul Revere–like alarm about American wildlife in peril—including buffalo, manatees, antelope, egrets, and elk—Roosevelt saved entire species from probable extinction. As we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management, this imposing leader's stout resolution to protect our environment is an inspiration and a contemporary call to arms for us all. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 940
Dimensions: Length: 2.25" Width: 6" Height: 9"
Weight: 2.14 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date May 1, 2010
ISBN 0060565314
EAN 9780060565312
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 | TR Was a Much Better Writer Than Professor Brinkley Dec 24, 2009 |
| Readers should expect much better from a tenured history professor. I certainly hope the good professor expects better of his students. Others have mentioned glaring errors in dates, including the birth date of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, as well as misstating the start of the Battle of Gettysburg by 10 years. As I read the book, the impression grew that Professor Brinkley was being paid by the word as he meandered through TR's life as a naturalist and hunter. Replete with rhetorical questions simply dropped into the middle of the narrative - questions that made no sense and added nothing to the story. Exhaustive lists of place names. Gratuitous usage of the scientific names of the birds and animals - added nothing to the story, as well. Typographical and grammatical errors galore. And did I mention repetitive?? While there is little doubt that TR was forward looking and instrumental in the creation of the national park system and other federal preserves, this is not a topic worthy of 800+ pages. | | |  | Wonderful historical reminder of this great man's environmentalism Dec 13, 2009 |
| I recommend it for anyone wanting to sense vision, opportunity AND action from a president | | | | Awesome Product Dec 7, 2009 |
| Well worth the read. Book was in perfect condition. I would encourage others to buy this book! | | | | Thank you critical amazon.com reviewers you saved precious reading time Dec 5, 2009 |
| Numerous reviewers of this 900 page book judged that it has not been properly edited and was thus flawed and exhaustive. If I had not read these reviews I might have started reading on page one and then gotten too far along before I realized how exhaustive it really is. And then I may have sloughed on to the bitter end, just to finish something I started and had already invested so much time in. But thanks to the heads-up from the reviewers who were less than thrilled by this big book I paged through and scanned it for an hour or two and saw that, yes indeed, it is too exhaustive (for me) and set it aside to use as a reference book. | | |  | A different perspective on a well-known person Nov 30, 2009 |
| Before I read the book, my image of Theodore Roosevelt was that of an avid hunter. However, after reading this book, I gained great respect for his foresight in recognizing the danger of overdevelopment and the necessity for nature conservationism. It made for a complex man who enjoyed hunting bears but also delighted in finding and preserving rare birds. Also it was interesting to read about how the craze for bird feather on women's hats almost drove some birds to extinction. It made me think of the fur coat craze in modern fashion or the demand for ivory in Chinese medicine that is driving elephants to extinction. Theodore Roosevelt was a pioneer and a leader, and my hats off to him and others, including Frank Chapman, Paul Kroegel, Guy Bradley, who risked their lives to preserve the nature we still enjoy today. | | | Write your own review about The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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