The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

(NYTBR) - ... Roosevelt talked about lordly elk and manifest destiny, a far cry from today’s scientists with their complex computer models of climate change. Saving redwoods is one thing, properly inflating your tires something else. Roosevelt made conservation a vital, almost violent pursuit. It went with being manly, brave, patriotic. It was as populated with animals as any children’s book. It was scientific and yet saturated with religious meaning, patrician but populist, global and yet fueled by jingoistic fervor. It was fun. Continued

Photo: Theodore Roosevelt montage (Library of Congress).