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Schweber Nate - This America Of Ours Bernard And Avis Devoto And The Forgotten Fight To Save The Wild - Paperback
Schweber Nate - This America Of Ours Bernard And Avis Devoto And The Forgotten Fight To Save The Wild - Paperback
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Description: Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion. Terry Tempest Williams The untold and energetic history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from Mc Carthyism and inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal) In late - 1940s America few writers commanded attention like Bernard De Voto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor Avis De Voto was a firebrand of American liberty free speech and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers led by Senator Pat Mc Carran sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging mining and private industry the De Votos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarm from Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Alfred Knopf Adlai Stevenson and Wallace Stegner while the very pillars of American democracy embodied in free and public access to Western lands hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe Mc Carthy J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn and it even cost Bernard his life. In This America of Ours award - winning journalist Nate Schweber uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance that altered the course of twentieth - century history and saved American wilderness and our country's most fundamental ideals from ruin.
Title: This America Of Ours Bernard And Avis Devoto And The Forgotten Fight To Save The Wild
Author(s): Schweber Nate
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063268692
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/10/2023
Description: Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion. Terry Tempest Williams The untold and energetic history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from Mc Carthyism and inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal) In late - 1940s America few writers commanded attention like Bernard De Voto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor Avis De Voto was a firebrand of American liberty free speech and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers led by Senator Pat Mc Carran sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging mining and private industry the De Votos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarm from Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Alfred Knopf Adlai Stevenson and Wallace Stegner while the very pillars of American democracy embodied in free and public access to Western lands hung in the balance. Their dramatic crusade would earn them censorship and blacklisting by Joe Mc Carthy J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Cohn and it even cost Bernard his life. In This America of Ours award - winning journalist Nate Schweber uncovers the forgotten story of a progressive alliance that altered the course of twentieth - century history and saved American wilderness and our country's most fundamental ideals from ruin.
Title: This America Of Ours Bernard And Avis Devoto And The Forgotten Fight To Save The Wild
Author(s): Schweber Nate
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063268692
Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/10/2023