This book was just bully, thank you. It was a good overview of Roosevelt's progressive policies. It made sense of the myth of Theodore Roosevelt that This book was just bully, thank you. It was a good overview of Roosevelt's progressive policies. It made sense of the myth of Theodore Roosevelt that is part of American culture to this day. And it also helped clear up some of my perceptions of turn of the century American history. It's an entertaining read - but that's because Roosevelt was an awfully entertaining guy. I hope some of his common sense, progressive legacy returns in our new, current president....more
This is an amazingly well researched, well written, and thorough book that covered four hundred years of British Columbian coast history. I expected iThis is an amazingly well researched, well written, and thorough book that covered four hundred years of British Columbian coast history. I expected it just to be the story of the eponymous spruce, a genetic freak that Haida legends were built on. But it was much more than that, as Valliant describes logging, and how that huge industry drove a man to madness, and destroying the magical spruce. Everyone from a forestry-industry area should read this book....more
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