9780300084238-0300084234-The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader

The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader

ISBN-13: 9780300084238
ISBN-10: 0300084234
Edition: First Edition
Author: Douglas Brinkley, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Bernard DeVoto
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 576 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780300084238
ISBN-10: 0300084234
Edition: First Edition
Author: Douglas Brinkley, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Bernard DeVoto
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback 576 pages

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The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader (ISBN-13: 9780300084238 and ISBN-10: 0300084234), written by authors Douglas Brinkley, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Bernard DeVoto, was published by Yale University Press in 2001. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Development & Growth (Economics, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Development & Growth books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.02.

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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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