
Rightful Heritage
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
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Narrated by:
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William Dufris
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Douglas Brinkley
The acclaimed, award-winning historian - "America's new past master" (Chicago Tribune) - examines the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal.
Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, Brinkley turns his attention to the other indefatigable environmental leader - Teddy's distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, chronicling his essential yet undersung legacy as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and premier protector of America's public lands. FDR built from scratch dozens of state park systems and scenic roadways. Pristine landscapes such as the Great Smokies, the Everglades, Joshua Tree, the Olympics, Big Bend, Channel Islands, Mammoth Cave, and the slickrock wilderness of Utah were forever saved by his leadership.
Brinkley traces FDR's love for the natural world from his youth exploring the Hudson River Valley and bird-watching. As America's president from 1933 to 1945, Roosevelt - a consummate political strategist - established hundreds of federal migratory bird refuges and spearheaded the modern endangered species movement. He brilliantly positioned his conservation goals as economic policy to combat the severe unemployment of the Great Depression. During its nine-year existence, the CCC put nearly three million young men to work on conservation projects - including building trails in the national parks, pollution control, land restoration to combat the Dust Bowl, and planting over two billion trees.
Rightful Heritage is an epic chronicle that is both an irresistible portrait of FDR's unrivaled passion and drive and an indispensable analysis that skillfully illuminates the tension between business and nature - exploiting our natural resources and conserving them. Within the narrative are brilliant capsule biographies of such environmental warriors as Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes, and Rosalie Edge. Rightful Heritage is essential listening for everyone seeking to preserve our treasured landscapes as an American birthright.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt & the Land of America
By Douglas Brinkley
Mr. Brinkley’s book is an excellent focus on a very large part of FDR’s life and career. I found it very interesting.
Most probably know FDR’s older cousin Theodore Roosevelt played an integral part in establishing our national parks, conservation and protection of historic sites.
Here you become very well acquainted with the fact that FDR, in continuing that legacy, likely affected the NPS and Forest Service even more than TR. He did try to emulate TR in many ways, however there were other familial influences also. FDR was fascinated with nature, continuing his efforts while also dealing with the Great Depression and prosecuting WWII.
As usual, Mr. Brinkley did not disappoint.
Fascinating focus on FDR’s passion
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An FDR Relevant for Today
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This book is a great miss of history and his love of the environment.
Outstanding
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The narrator has a great voice but cannot pronounce Latin species names and numerous geographical locations across the US. As a scientist, just leave the Latin binomials out - if we really care we just will read it in the book. It can’t believe no one caught how he pronounced Cape Hatteras
Environmentalist from the beginning
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A must listen
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Thorough and thoughtful evaluation of Roosevelt’s legacy of conservation
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Another Side of FDR
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the human over coming adversity‼️
the gift of preservation of nature in America‼️
the ham handed politics of FDR.. a rare instance when it was good for the PEOPLE‼️
and so much to learn about our natural places and track changes overtime‼️
where to start...
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