{"product_id":"the-western-paradox-a-bernard-devoto-conservation-reader","title":"The Western Paradox: A Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is the fascinating record of DeVotos 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 (18971955) 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 Prizewinning 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 Harpers Magazine  in which he fulminated about his many concerns  particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West.  This volume brings together ten of DeVotos 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 DeVotos at Harvard University  and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick  both of whom shed light on DeVotos work and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44961890762805,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300084234","price":53.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300084238.jpg?v=1770395677","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-western-paradox-a-bernard-devoto-conservation-reader","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}