The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader - Softcover

DeVoto, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300084234 ISBN 13: 9780300084238

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

“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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Yale Western Americana Series

About the Author:

Douglas Brinkley is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Patricia Nelson Limerick is professor of history at the University of Colorado.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300084234
• ISBN 13: 9780300084238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Brinkley Douglas, Limerick Patricia Nelson