This America Of Ours - Nate Schweber

Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America"How could we have missed the swashbuckling story of Avis and Bernard DeVoto, tribunes of public lands, free speech and liberty itself? Thankfully we have it now from Nate Schweber, in telling and rich details that make clear its ties to Joe McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, and today's demagogue-ridden America."Larry Tye, New York Times bestselling author of Demagogue A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion.Terry Tempest WilliamsThe untold and energetic history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from McCarthyismand inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal)In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industry, the DeVotos entered the fight of their lives. Bernard and Avis built a broad grassroots coalition to sound the alarmfrom Julia and Paul Child to Ansel Adams, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Alfred Knopf, Adlai Stevenson, and Wallace Stegnerwhile the very pillars of American democracy, embodied in free and pu
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