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Douglas BrinkleyPublication Details
BookHarperCollins2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) E757 .B84 2009 DUE 03-16-10 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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. 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. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Roosevelt, Theodore, — 1858-1919
- Roosevelt, Theodore, — 1858-1919. — sears
- Nature conservation — United States — History — 20th century
- Conservationists — United States — Biography
- Presidents — United States — Biography
- Nature conservation — United States — History. — sears
- Conservationists — Biography. — sears
- Presidents — United States — Biography. — sears
Notes
- 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
ISBN
- 9780060565282
- 0060565284
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