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Book Synopsis Righteous Pilgrim by : T. H. Watkins
Download or read book Righteous Pilgrim written by T. H. Watkins and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare portrait of a politician who refused to stand for corruption shows how one New Dealer turned the scandal-ridden Department of the Interior into a powerful tool for preserving public lands. Reprint. PW. LJ. NYT.
Book Synopsis Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by : T. H. Watkins
Download or read book Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 written by T. H. Watkins and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in rural western Pennsylvania, Harold LeClair Ickes (1874-1952), son of a gambler, womanizer, drunk father and of a strictly reared Presbyterian mother, grew up desperately poor and desperately ambitious. He became a Chicago newsman during its gilded era, a key figure in the Progressive Party, and in FDR’s cabinet became America’s longest serving and most influential Interior Secretary. As Interior Secretary, he helped change the face of America, forging that department into the most powerful tool for the protection of our lands. He was also a major force in reshaping the character and quality of American society, often seeming to speak ex cathedra as the conscience of FDR’s administration. Opinionated, vigorously outspoken, as impassioned defending minorities as defending our wild places, Ickes, who happily styled himself “the Old Curmudgeon,” was arguably the most controversial and most beloved figure in the New Deal. When Ickes wrote his first column in the New Republic, the editors of the magazine introduced him on May 2, 1949 as “old enough to be called an Elder Statesman, but he is too salty for that label. He himself has cheerfully accepted the epithet of Curmudgeon, which likewise is insufficient to his case. A more accurate description would be that he is America’s most venerable progressive and one of the stoutest fighters, at any age, for justice and good government.” Righteous Pilgrim was a non-fiction National Book Award finalist in 1990, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography in 1991 and was a finalist for theNational Book Critics Circle Award. “an outstanding biography that is also a major work of social history spanning the first half of the 20th century... [Ickes was] a courageous public servant who in Righteous Pilgrim receives long overdue recognition.” — Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times “highly successful... Written in a delightful conversational style that disguises the impressive scholarly research that went into its preparation, this is an appreciative biography of a man who was so temperamental, thin-skinned and bluntly outspoken that he acknowledged these traits himself... This thoughtful, readable, and yet gripping book is so persuasive it may well force a more positive reassessment of the New Deal... Righteous Pilgrim is likely to be one of the most significant histories of the Progressive and New Deal reform impulse to appear in a decade.” — Howard R. Lamar,Washington Post “[an] elegant and exhaustive new biography of Ickes... Using primary sources (such as the diary Ickes religiously maintained through most of his life) with great sensitivity, [Watkins] provides an astonishingly intimate portrait of a public man... Watkins, editor of The Wilderness Society magazine Wilderness, is a wonderfully skillful writer... As Watkins powerfully demonstrates in this rewarding and illuminating work, Ickes had no shortage of ego — but his real fuel was conviction, burning at an octane hardly ever seen in Washington any more.” — Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times “[an] engaging, monumental biography” — Publishers Weekly “Researched with amazing thoroughness and organized with a sure hand, this will undoubtedly prove to be the definitive work on Harold L. Ickes... Watkins portrays the currents of political maneuvering that swirled and eddied about Ickes with admirable clarity. A complex, fascinating, and convincing portrait.” — Kirkus Reviews “[a] worthy, well-written biography.“ — Clayton R. Koppes, Reviews in American History “Harold Ickes was one of the most interesting political figures of the first half of the twentieth century, and T. H. Watkins vividly sets forth both the complexities of his personality and personal life and the remarkable scope of his achievements.” — Frank Freidel “A superbly written story of the preeminent Progressive of this century. I couldn’t put it down.” — Stewart L. Udall “Righteous Pilgrim is one of those rare and wonderful biographies that are at once incisive portraiture and important social history.” — Wallace Stegner “Harold Ickes stomps across the pages of T. H. Watkins’s biography as one of the most arresting and essential figures of the American twentieth century.” — Frederick Turner “At last, a biography worthy of its extraordinary subject — vivid, impassioned, larger-than-life.” — Geoffrey C. Ward
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Righteous Pilgrim by : Tom H. Watkins
Download or read book Righteous Pilgrim written by Tom H. Watkins and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the longest-serving U.S. Interior Secretary, chronicling his role in the New Deal
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress ... With Explanatory Notes by Mason. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.] by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress ... With Explanatory Notes by Mason. [With Plates, Including a Portrait.] written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress ... A New Edition, Divided Into Chapters. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with ... Engravings [including a Portrait]. by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress ... A New Edition, Divided Into Chapters. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with ... Engravings [including a Portrait]. written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Practical Works of John Bunyan, Author of The Pilgrim's Progress by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Practical Works of John Bunyan, Author of The Pilgrim's Progress written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress, Etc. With Illustrations by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress, Etc. With Illustrations written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Select Works of John Bunyan: with Introductory Lectures on the “Pilgrim's Progress,” by the Rev. Robert Maguire ... and a Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Josiah Conder, Etc. [With Plates.]. by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Select Works of John Bunyan: with Introductory Lectures on the “Pilgrim's Progress,” by the Rev. Robert Maguire ... and a Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Josiah Conder, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come ... by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come ... written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. With explanatory notes by [W.] Mason by : John Bunyan
Download or read book The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come. With explanatory notes by [W.] Mason written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inherit the Holy Mountain by : Mark Stoll
Download or read book Inherit the Holy Mountain written by Mark Stoll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused.
Book Synopsis Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy by : Dyana Z. Furmansky
Download or read book Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy written by Dyana Z. Furmansky and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge’s personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names “Joan of Arc” and “hellcat.” A progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not join the conservation movement until her early fifties. Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements--called "widespread and monumental" by the New Yorker--forms a crucial link between the eras defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent Spring was published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an "especially significant" source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society, U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous period in American conservation, this is the life story of an unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.
Download or read book American-Made written by Nick Taylor and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing accomplishments. The WPA is American history that could not be more current, from providing economic stimulus to renewing a broken infrastructure. Introduced in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression, when unemployment and desperation ruled the land, this controversial nationwide jobs program would forever change the physical landscape and social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted eight years, spent $11 billion, employed 8½ million men and women, and gave the country not only a renewed spirit but a fresh face. Now this fascinating and informative book chronicles the WPA from its tumultuous beginnings to its lasting presence, and gives us cues for future action.
Book Synopsis Reclamation Managing Water in the West, The Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945, Vol. 1, 2006 by :
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