From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a
sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering
environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid
bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America's
conservation movement.
In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on
never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of
our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres
of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt
made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American
wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between
the Civil War and World War I. Roosevelt's most important legacies led
to the creation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and passage of the
Antiquities Act in 1906. His executive orders saved such treasures as
Devils Tower, the Grand Canyon, and the Petrified Forest.