"How a city-born child of privilege became one of the greatest forces in
American conservation is the subject of
Douglas Brinkley’s vast, inspiring and enormously entertaining book, 'The
Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America,'" writes
Jonathan Rosen in the
New York Times. "The subtitle is telling — the crusade for America, not 'wild America' — because for Roosevelt, living forests and petrified forests, bird preserves and buffalo ranges were essential for the country’s survival as a moral and military power."