The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Author: Douglas Brinkley
- Publisher: Harper
- Release Date: July 2009
- ISBN-10: 0060565284
- ISBN-13: 9780060565282
- List Price: $34.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAmazon 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, known as the "naturalist President" for his efforts in protecting wildlife 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 (ironically, one wonders how many trees fell for the first printing), The Wilderness Warrior makes an excellent companion to Timothy Egan's The Big Burn and Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea. --Jon Foro |
Customer Reviews
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An exceptionally accomplished effort from a unique perspective, among so many books, on the President who may best represent what the founding fathers of this nation had in mind for America's leadership.
Worst-written history I've ever read
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Douglas Brinkley's "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America" is among the worst-written histories I have ever read. I would add that it is among the worst-edited, but there is no evidence of any editing.
Chock-full of conjectures and non sequiturs, it even errs about common knowledge, such as that Jamestown, Virginia, really predated Santa Fe, New Mexico (incorrect in one chapter, correct in another), and the correct title of Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi."
Prof. Brinkley is a well-reputed historian, so I assume that his publisher rushed this book to publication at the same time as Ken Burns' "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" was premiering on television.
There's a good book in there, but it needs a second, edited edition.
Where were the editors?
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Theodore Roosevelt was without question a force of nature, one of our four or five greatest Presidents, and arguably the most versatile and intelligent of all. Sadly, this book, bold and exhausting in scope, suffers from the lack of effective editing. It is shot full of typographical errors, cliches (people come "from far and wide") and not a few factual errors and inconsistencies which are irritating to a careful reader. Brinkley should be more disciplined in his writing and his editors more diligent.
A wonderful man...
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This is a wonderful book on T.R. Another side to the man many only know from his role as president of the U.S. The more I learn about this man, the more in awe of him I am. He was one of the smartest, most well-rounded and sensible people to ever become president and his appreciation for the land is something that should be re-discovered in those who hold office today.
Inspiring story, but flawed by typos
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I have been truly inspired by this book - inspired by the grandeur of this country, inspired by the potential of good governance, inspired to read more on the topic of early conservationists and inspired to visit and revisit our national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges and forests. Unfortunately, this brilliant book is marred by numerous typos and other errors. Some are errors of fact, e.g.: erroneous birth dates for Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin; there are misspellings, sentences missing words and just plain sloppiness (e.g.: listing the state of Montana twice in one sentence which lists several states). I hope this book will be edited before it goes to its next printing. Other than that, I highly recommend this book.
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