83.5 Charing Cross Road: The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt

Drawing on unpublished research on Theodore Roosevelt and the rise of conservationism in America—no small task, considering the many biographies on Roosevelt published over the last decade—Brinkley offers a weighty tome that, while shedding new insight into the former president's environmentalism, tends to overwhelm with detail and, according to some critics, underwhelm with substance. Over two decades and more than two dozen books, Brinkley has mastered the art of balancing scholarship and research with readability. In Wilderness Warrior, though, the author's affinity for his subject and the vastness of the literature on Roosevelt get in the way of a message that might have been made clearer with some prudent cutting.

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