The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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One of the Best Books of the Year
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In this monumental biography, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley examines the life and achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, our “naturalist president,” and his tireless campaign for the American wilderness—a legacy now more vital than ever.
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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, known as the “naturalist President” for his efforts in protecting wildlife and wilderness, merging preservation and jingoism 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 brilliant companion to Timothy Egan’s The Huge Burn and Ken Burns’s The National Parks: America’s Best Thought. –Jon Foro
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I ordered this as Kindle download. I have read 3 additional books on T.R. and just establish this book to be so dull and unexciting that it was with fantastic difficulty to just end the book. The leader just went into way too much detail about T.R.’s being this fantastic bird lover. I wanted to just scream, get on with the book! TR was one of the country’s greatest presidents (as proclaimed by some historians), but also one of the most proud and self-righteous, that I establish myself apt very disenchanted with TR the man. His over self-indulgence in killing wild animals in the West then proclaiming it was his duty in order to fill the museums he’d help make with stuffed animals made me so indignant at this man. What a hypocrite! He’d fit right in with the Republican party of today.
The book was certainly an eye opener for me revealing TR in a role I’d not read of before, ie his overwhelming desire to fullfill his like of killing animals just for what he said was sport, then whine about the mass extermination of buffalo on the Plains. He was as much reliable for the extermination of various species of animals in this country as anyone. Why we have his profile on Mt. Rushmore, after reading this book, is beyond me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the least appealing book I have ever read on one of our country’s most appealing characters. Not worth the slog, please look elsewhere for some terrific teddy bear Roosevelt biographies.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Based on the excepert of this book in Vanity Honest, Douglas Brinkley’s knowledge of the wild, wildlife, firearms, and outdoorsmen is rumor has it that practically nil. “Roosevelt has been denied his environmental due”? By whom? When? By the 100s of millions of hunters and anglers who for over a century have virtually worshiped the ground he walked on, and thank him to this day for helping conserve the lands and waters they hunt and fish on? Brinkley makes mythological animals that never existed–”a massive 28-point blacktail buck head spanning more than 50 inches.” He puts semi auto rifles (shades of “assault weapons” and black guns) in the hands of plume hunters in 1903. He presents as new material the extremely shopworn fact that Roosevelt detested the sobriquet “teddy bear” and that it was for him, ironically with that despised nickname, that the teddy bear bear was christened. I frankly gave up on his writing in a sense of sheer annoyance over Brinkley’s seemingly unique discovery of the outdoor world all too rather late in the day. It’s like finding that there’s really human (though not, of course, to say intelligent) life out there beyond the Beltway or Manhattan or wherever Brinkley calls what seems to be a sadly parochial home. If the excerpt, glutted with so much ignorance in so tiny a space, is the best Brinkley can do to sell this biography, I’m worried I won’t be spending my money to buy it. I’ll wait for Edmund Morris’s third volume of his Roosevelt bio, thank you.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I like teddy bear Roosevelt as a president, a Top 10 for sure. I also reflect Douglas Brinkley is one of our finest historians, brilliant yet down to planet — but — I have to admit to being a small disappointed in the massive amount of information in this book. As a definitive reference book about one of our fantastic presidents and one of his most vital contributions to this country, this book gets an A+ and Douglas Brinkley an A+. It is not, but, a book that you can sit in your chair, open it up and delight in the ride — and I wish it was.
800+ pages is a bit too much detail on a birds and trees.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I expect a historian or at least his editors to get basic dates right. On page 64 the leader states that Abraham Lincoln was born in 1803. Incorrect answer, Mr. Brinkley. Abe was born in 1808 or 1809, historians aren’t really sure which year. After such a glaring error early on in the book I establish myself suspecting additional “facts” he writes about.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5