false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255575610m/6452538.jpg 6452538 7 <P>In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land. </P><P><br>On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in an eyeblink. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men -- college boys, day-workers, immigrants from mining camps -- to fight the fires. But no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. </P><P><br>Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, through the eyes of the people who lived it. Equally dramatic, though, is the larger story he tells of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. The robber barons fought him and the rangers charged with protecting the reserves, but even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by those same rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service with consequences felt in the fires of today. </P><P><br>THE BIG BURN tells an epic story, paints a moving portrait of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time. </P> 6642737 book 19 10 2009 The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America total:52|5:17|4:27|3:7|2:1|1:0| 52 216 305 26 4 0 true false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:34:16 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 20:57:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 10:49:28 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 10:49:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:36:02 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 09:14:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:57:03 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:48:24 -0800 2009 This is the story of the worst wildfire in American history, the Great Fire of 1910, which burned 3 million acres, destroyed...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 18 15:28:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 20:28:38 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:28:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 01:07:51 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:19:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 05:04:21 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 05:32:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 11:19:09 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 11:23:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 19:53:29 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 07:53:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 25 10:13:32 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 22 20:58:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:18:39 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 18:29:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 11 08:52:06 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 09:51:36 -0700 2009
In "The Worst Hard Time," Egan puts the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at thecenter of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with "The Big Burn," detailingthe largest-ever forest fire in America.



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