The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

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From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening have a look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of The us’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 The us for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness used to be most likely the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt’s most essential legacies led to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Flora and fauna 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.
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2009: “The movement for the conversation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.” So wrote Theodore Roosevelt, referred to as the “naturalist President” for his efforts in protecting Flora and fauna and wilderness, merging preservation and patriotism into a quintessential American ideal. The Wilderness Warrior, Douglas Brinkley’s massive(ly readable) new biography, intrepidly explores the wilderness of influences (Audubon and Darwin), personal relationships (Muir and Pinchot), and frontier adventures (too many to mention) that shaped Roosevelt’s proto-green views. Topping 800 pages (paradoxically, one wonders what number of trees fell for the first printing), The Wilderness Warrior makes a very good companion to Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn and Ken Burns’s The National Parks: The us’s Best Idea. –Jon Foro

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