[PDF.95lm] The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader (The Lamar Series in Western History)

The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader (The Lamar Series in Western History)

[PDF.oj70] The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader (The Lamar Series in Western History)

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 | #476413 in eBooks |  2001-09-01 |  2001-08-11 | File type: PDF

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A still-relevant view of the West from mid-century|By Arthur Digbee|Bernard DeVoto has a historian at Harvard, columnist at Harper's magazine, and winner of the Pulitzer prize before his early death in 1955. This long book collects two groups of his writings, a selection of his Harper's essays and an unfinished manuscript on "The Western Paradox."

The essays in the f| |"[DeVoto's] 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|From the Publisher|Yale Western Americana Series

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 exploit...

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