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The Western Paradox : A Conservation Reader - Bernard DeVoto

The Western Paradox

A Conservation Reader

By: Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Brinkley (Editor), Patricia Nelson Limerick (Editor)

Paperback | 11 August 2001 | Edition Number 1

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"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword
 
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West.
 
This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy.
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"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself... His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword

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