Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Great Environmental Awakening,” which connects these leaders with a series of great legislative accomplishments, from the Wilderness Act to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, right on schedule, Brinkley is set to publish a third book on this theme, “Silent Spring Revolution: John F. His Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 2 billion trees and created 13,000 miles of trails. FDR created 140 national wildlife refuges and 29 national parks. Roosevelt and the Land of America,” a portrait of the man considered by many to be the country’s greatest environmental president. When the historian Douglas Brinkley wrote “The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America” (2009), The New York Times called it a “vast, inspiring and enormously entertaining book” for its depiction of a great conservationist president who saved 234 million acres of America’s wilderness.īrinkley, a professor of history at Rice University in Houston, followed up that volume seven years later with “Rightful Heritage: Franklin D.
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