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The Green Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places (Hardcover, New)
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The Green Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places (Hardcover, New)
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America's first Green president, Theodore Roosevelt's credentials
as both naturalist and writer are as impressive as they are deep,
emblematic of the twenty-sixth President's unprecedented breadth
and energy. While Roosevelt authored policies that grew the public
domain by a remarkable 230 million acres, he likewise penned over
thirty-five books and an estimated 150,000 letters, many concerning
the natural world. In between drafts both personal and political,
scientific and sentimental, he quadrupled existing forest reserves
while creating the nation's first fifty wildlife refuges and
eighteen national monuments, among them the Grand Canyon, and five
national parks, headlined by Yosemite. And Roosevelt was far more
than a policy wonk and political do-gooder. John Muir, by his own
admission, "fairly fell in love with him." John Burroughs wrote
that Roosevelt "probably knew tenfold more natural history than all
the presidents who preceded him." And the Smithsonian's Edmund
Heller dubbed him the "foremost field naturalist of our time." In
addition to creating more than 150,000 new acres of national
forest, Roosevelt made a new vogue of sportsmanship, famously
refusing to shoot a lame bear in Mississippi and inspiring,
thereof, an American icon and ecological fetish all at once: the
Teddy Bear. Indeed, Roosevelt's Green undertakings produced a truly
living legacy-one whose everlasting qualities he took robust
pleasure in. Naturalist William Finley once suggested to TR that
the President's environmental prescience would serve as "one of the
greatest memorials to his] farsightedness," to which Roosevelt
replied, "Bully. I had rather have it than a hundred stone
monuments." In fact, Roosevelt would have both-a lasting reputation
for environmental protection and timeless stone monuments at Mount
Rushmore and elsewhere built to honor his dramatic public policy
initiatives. This book will be a critical resource for all those in
American history (particularly presidential history), environmental
history, environmental studies, nature studies, place studies,
Agrarian studies, conservation studies, fish and wildlife
biology/management, and ecology.
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